One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

Wilkie Collins

2 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Wilkie Collins (WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS the son)

WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS, the son of a landscape and portrait painter, was born in London, January 8, 1824. He died September 23, 1889. After…

Wilkie Collins (WHEN Wilkie Collins met)

WHEN Wilkie Collins met Charles Dickens, his future was shortly decided. The lives of the two were intimately connected thereafter. Dickens…

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