- Fiction, Bigamy, Married women, Married people
On a summer's morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Wilkie Collins, Norman Page, Harry A. Webber
- First published
- 1870
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- B. Tauchnitz, Bibliotech Press, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 114
- Language
- French, Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780809594788
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“IN the spring of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight there lived, in a certain county of North Britain, two venerable White Owls.”
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for *The Woman in White* (1859) and *The Moonstone* (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend and mentor. Some of Collins's works appeared first in Dickens's journals *All the Year Round* and *Household Words* and they collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins achieve
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