Name: Le Secret (in French)
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781523799732

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

608

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 3.1 cm

Weight

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9781523799732

Synopsis "Le Secret (in French)"

Un manoir sur la côte déchiquetée de Cornouailles....Une Mystérieuse lettre....Un terrible secret.... Wilkie Collins, le père du roman policier anglais, nous livre ici une intrigue remplie de rebondissements, de Suspense et d'émotions. C'est aussi une critique de la condition féminine dans la société victorienne ainsi qu'une histoire remplie d'Humour et d'Amour.

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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