Wilkie Collins

Baisers Furtifs Wilkie Collins

Publisher Marketing: Un amour interdit, un complot et une sombre histoire d'argent. Le texte qui suit fit un veritable scandale lors de sa premiere publication. Il y est en effet question d'un sujet hautement sulfureux pour l'epoque, celui de l'emancipation d'une jeune fille de quinze ans dont les sentiments qu'elle porte a son cousin la conduisent a se marier en secret, contre l'avis de son pere qui la destine a un riche ami de la famille. Contributor Bio:  Collins, Wilkie English novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins was a prolific writer with a body of work comprising thirty novels, over sixty short stories, more than a dozen plays, and a wide range of non-fiction pieces. Collins is best known for his novels The Woman in White, an early sensation novel--a genre combining shocking gothic horror with everyday domestic settings--and The Moonstone, which is credited as one of the first modern mystery novels. In the 1850s Collins met Charles Dickens and the two struck up a friendship, which lead to Collins becoming a frequent contributor to Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Many of his stories have been adapted for film, including Basil, A Terribly Strange Bed, The Moonstone and The Woman in White. Collins died in 1889 at the age of 65.