A close friend of Charles Dickens from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, William Wilkie Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a time, best paid of Victorian fiction writers. But after his death, his reputation declined as Dickens' bloomed. Now, Collins is being given more critical and popular attention than he has received for 50 years. Most of his books are in print, and all are now in e-text. He is studied widely; new film, television, and radio versions of some of his books have been made; and all of his letters have been published. However, there is still much to be discovered about this superstar of Victorian fiction. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law student at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851, although he never practised. It was in 1848, a year after the death of his father, that he published his first book, 'The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A'., to good reviews. The 1860s saw Collins' creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, 'The Woman in White' (1860), 'No Name' (1862), 'Armadale' (1866) and 'The Moonstone' (1868). 'The Moonstone', is seen by many as the first true detective novel T. S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ..." in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe.
Books
The New Magdalen
1873
Little Novels
1887
The Dead Alive
1873
The Devil's Spectacles
1879
Works of Wilkie Collins
2003
The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time
60+ Books in One Volume: Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Phantom Ship, The Birth Mark, The Headless Horseman…
2020
Short Stories of Wilkie Collins
1777
Poor Miss Finch
1872
The Moonstone
1868
Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others
1930
The Guilty River
1886
Basil
1852
I Say No
1884
The Woman in White
1859
The Essential Works of Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone
2008
Sensation Stories
1884
Who Killed Zebedee? and John Jago's Ghost
1880
Miss or Mrs?/ The Haunted Hotel/ The Guilty River
1993
Blind Love
1890
Hide and Seek
1854
Una cama terriblemente rara
1852
My Lady's Money
1879
Miss or Mrs.?
1873
The Lady of Glenwith Grange
1856
The Two Destinies
1876
Wilkie Collins
The Complete Novels
2015
The Frozen Deep
1857
Cuentos de amor victorianos
2006
Antonina, or The Fall of Rome
1850
Wilkie Collins
The Complete Shorter Fiction
1995
Miss Jeromette And The Clergyman
1875
La dama del sueño
1855
Miss Morris and the Stranger
2011
La donna in bianco. Libro primo
2009
The Yellow Mask & Other Stories
1855
Three Great Novels
1994
Ioláni; Or, Tahíti as It Was
A Romance
1999
Testimone d'accusa
1858
After Dark
1856
Jezebel's Daughter
1880
Женщина в белом
2021
Miss Mina and the Groom
1890
The Legacy of Cain
1888
Heart and Science
1883
A Rogue's Life
1856
Strange Stories of the Supernatural
1980
The Queen of Hearts
1859
The Moonstone/The Haunted Hotel/My Lady's Money
1994
Mad Monkton And Other Stories
1855
The Law and the Lady
1875
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol
2
2019
Rambles beyond Railways or, Notes in Cornwall Taken A-Foot
1851
The Dead Secret
1856
A Fair Penitent
1857
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
1885
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
No Name
1862
The Fallen Leaves
1879
Man and Wife
1870
The Evil Genius
1886
The Haunted Hotel
1879
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror
120+ authors and 1000+ stories
2018
Mr. Percy and the Prophet
2008
The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories
1885
Mr. Wray's Cash Box by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics, Literary
1852
The Woman in White
1859
Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
1972
The Yellow Mask
1967
La follia dei Monkton
1855
La dama de blanco
1900
The Moonstone and The Woman in White
1937
Biter Bit and Other Stories
1858
Armadale
1866
