Name: Hide and Seek
SKU: 60446785
Price: 25.56 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781530561292

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

376

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9781530561292

Synopsis "Hide and Seek"

After many years in the goldfields of California, Matthew Grice returns home to search for Mary, a disabled circus performer and the daughter of his dead sister. But everything is not what it seems as Matthew's quest for the girl, and after, for the girl's father, takes him on an unexpected journey filled with seduction, abandonment and hidden identities.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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