Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
Wilkie Collins
Subjects: DA, Cornwall (England : County) -- Description and travel, I
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Subjects: DA, Cornwall (England : County) -- Description and travel, I
Downloads: 579
William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1860), The Moonstone (1868), Armadale (1866) and No Name (1862). His works were classified at the time as 'sensation novels', a genre seen nowadays as the precursor to detective fiction and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues o.
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