Synopsis "The Fallen Leaves"

The Fallen Leaves, Wilkie Collins's novel was published in 1879, devoted to Caroline Graves. The title 'Fallen Leaves' depicts the life of four women, who are lonely and friendless and have relationship with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart. Banished from his Utopian people group because of an unlawful issue with a more seasoned lady, Amelius comes to London to enrol in the assistance of John Farnaby, a man with a scandal history. He is quickly enraptured by his manager's niece and soon our legend ends up ensnared in his new family's dim history. It is representing two outlooks- merciless wealthy society o England and utopian community in America. The novel shows the theme that it's difficult to have a successful relationship between men and women, which are neither pious nor corrupt.

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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