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Cuando el anciano Allan Armadale escribe su terrible confesión en el lecho de muerte, no puede ni imaginarse las repercusiones que tendrá esa carta cuando su hijo recién nacido la lea años después.
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- Author
- Wilkie Collins
- First published
- 1866
- Pages
- 518
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 261
- Language
- Swedish, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781673995428
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“It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of WILDBAD.”
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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