A Rogue's Life and Little Novels
Author: Wilkie Collins
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Published: 2001-04
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780742650510
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Author: Wilkie Collins
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Published: 2001-04
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780742650510
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Published: 1970
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ISBN-13: 9780404017507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 872693308X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you have ever come across the word "rogue" before, chances are you have either been playing video games, perused old X-Men comics or have overheard it as part of your aunt's vocabulary, while she was being cajoled over the phone by that slick, dapper mediterranean gentleman she met on her holiday in Barcelona. Shockingly, and somewhat regrettably, Wilkie Collins is less romantically inclined and resorts to using the word in its traditional sense of "a proper scoundrel". With character names such as "Frank Softly" and "Dr. Dulcifer", you would be forgiven for thinking that this story is a comedy (or a piece of pornography) but not quite so, although it does contain humorous elements. Frank Softly is unsuccessful in his career choices but manages to fall in love with the good doctor's daughter. Continuing his streak of questionable luck, Frank's new father-in-law turns out to be a professional fraudster – a business in which our happy-go-lucky protagonist unwillingly finds himself entangled, becoming the eponymous "rogue". A moment whose modern equivalent would be the point in the comic book movie where somebody says the film's title aloud. An uplifting tale of thwarted ambition and clandestine love, "A Rogue's Life" is a short novel originally published in "Household Words" in 1856 and in book form in 1879. Novelist, playwright, genre pioneer, opium addict, mentee of Charles Dickens, magnificently bearded individual – Englishman Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) has many titles to his name. Having a knack for mystery and unconventional characters, Collins' biggest contribution to world literature comes in the forms of "A Women in White" (1859) and "The Moonstone" (1868), with the former being mentioned on his headstone while the latter is widely considered the first modern detective novel.
Author: Wilkie Collins
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Classic Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781582010519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh quality reprint of A Rogue's Life and Little Novels: Miss Dulane and My Lord; Mr. Policeman and the Cook by Wilkie Collins.
Author: Wilkie Collins
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780404017804
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Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-04-17
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781511773980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist.
Author: Wilkie Collins
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: ICON Group International
Published: 2012-02-08
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh quality reprint of Rogue's Life: From His Birth to His Marriage, The; Little Novels: Miss Dulane and My Lord, Mr. Policeman and the Cook (Volume 30 of Works) by Wilkie Collins.
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