WILKIE COLLINS

Editeur : Le masque Date de parution : 1996 Description : In-8, 1436 pages, souple, occasion, très bon état

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist and playwright, best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone. In Collins' second novel, the well-born Basil falls for Margaret on first seeing her. Her linen-draper father agrees to Basil marrying Margaret - but he insists that the wedding must take place immediately and that Basi...

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist and playwright, best known for The Woman in White, The Moonstone, and Armadale, semi-epistolary novel about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale.

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartrights eerieencounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Purs...