Mad Monkton and Other Stories - Wilkie Collins - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780192837721 - April 22, 1999
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Wilkie Collins
Mad Monkton and Other Stories

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Although Wilkie Collins is remembered primarily as the best-selling creator of the vogue for 'sensation fiction' in the 1860s, he was also prolific in many genres apart from the full-length novel. In particular, he produced a stream of often brillant and original short stories. Adapting the tradition of the Gothic tale of terror, he wrote ghost stories with a distinctively contemporary flavour and also made a major contribution to the newly emerging form of the detective story. This volume has a substantial and informative introduction which places the stories in the context of Collins's career and the Victorian literary scene. It brings together samples of his work from three decades and demonstrates that as a purveyor of mystery, suspense, and the uncanny, as a chronicler of the dark underside of everyday life in the mid-Victorian period, and as a story-teller who quickly seizes the reader's interest and refuses to let go, Collins has few rivals.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 22, 1999
ISBN13 9780192837721
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 422
Dimensions 129 × 196 × 19 mm   ·   276 g
Language English  

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