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Where to Start With Wilkie Collins
There is a particular pleasure in reading a writer who does not trust you to sit still. Wilkie Collins, the most ingenious and least respectable of the…
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Wilkie Collins and The Moonstone: The First Great Detective Novel
T. S. Eliot called it “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,” and the verdict has held for a century and a half, which…
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The Woman in White and the Birth of the Sensation Novel
What is the sensation novel and why does The Woman in White matter?