| Blind Love by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics Contributor(s): Collins, Wilkie (Author), Besant, Walter (With) |
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ISBN: 1592246710 ISBN-13: 9781592246717 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $34.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: When Collins died before he could finish "Blind Love," Walter Besant was asked to finish it: "I have carried out the author's wishes to the best of my ability. I would that he were living still, if only to regret that he had not been allowed to finish his last work with his own hand!"--Walter Besant. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.60 lbs) 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Wilkie Collins died before he could finish Blind Love, Walter Besant was asked to finish it: "I have carried out the author's wishes to the best of my ability. I would that he were living still, if only to regret that he had not been allowed to finish his last work with his own hand " -- Walter Besant |
Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Wilkie: - "William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage and never married; he split his time between Caroline Graves, except for a two-year separation, and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children."Besant, Walter: - "Sir Walter Besant (1836 - 1901), was a novelist and historian. In 1868 he published Studies in French Poetry. Three years later he began his collaboration with writer James Rice. Among their joint productions are Ready-money Mortiboy (1872) and The Golden Butterfly (1876), both, especially the latter, very successful. This association was ended by the death of Rice in 1882. Thereafter Besant continued to write voluminously by himself, his main novels being All in a Garden Fair (which Rudyard Kipling credited in Something of Myself with inspiring him to leave India and make a career as a writer), Dorothy Forster (his own favorite), Children of Gibeon, and All Sorts and Conditions of Men." |