Name: The Dead Alive
SKU: 57510052
Price: 21.65 EUR
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781717047724

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

114

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x12.7x0.6 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN13

9781717047724

Synopsis "The Dead Alive"

The Dead Alive, también llamado John Jago's Ghost, es una novela escrita en 1874 por Wilkie Collins basada en el caso del asesinato de Boorn Brothers. Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body is found in a kiln. The Meadowcroft brothers stand accused of the crime, but are they guilty? The Dead Alive is a novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the true-life Boorn Brothers murder conviction case of 1819. Jesse and Stephen Boorn were sentenced to death for the murder of their brother-in-law, but were they wrongly convicted?

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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