Hide and Seek
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (566 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486242110 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A prolific author of the Victorian era, Wilkie Collins (1824-89) wrote "sensation" novels. The forerunners of today's detective and suspense fiction, his best-known works include The Moonstone and The Woman in White.Charles Dickens was his lifelong friend and collaborator, and many of Collins' stories first appeared in Dickens' weekly publication, All the Year Round.
Good Victorian Story K.E. Fuhrmann I've read quite a few Victorian novels, including the works of Trollope, Dickens, Eliot and Wilkie Collins. This isn't Collins' best or most compelling work (those honors belonging to The Moonstone and The Woman in White, of course), but it is still entertaining, well written and a pretty quick read. The story revolves around an adopted deaf and dumb girl, her adoptive parents and the mystery of her biological parentage. The characters are well drawn, but there is no grand love story as there usually is in Victorian novels.The Kindle version I read w. A solid, satisfying read I loved this book. I have only read "The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories". I have yet to read "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone" (which I will read soon enough) so I am not most reliable Wilkie Collins fan (fast becoming one though).I have read other Victorian authors but I find Collins to be the most enjoyable (not forgetting Braddon as wellequally beautiful in her writing). His prose is a pleasure to read, it feels as if he really treasured his gift for composition and narrative. Each paragraph resonates with warmth, tenderness, compassion an. lazza said contrived Wilkie Collins melodrama barely holds interest. I have read all of Wilkie Collins's major works (The Woman in White, The Moonstone, No Name, Armadale) and a couple of his minor works (Basil, The Dead Secret). Hide and Seek was written before Wilkie Collins made a name for himself as a 'sensation novelist'. Unfortunately whereas Basil, another early novel, showed the promise of Collins's later years, Hide and Seek does him no justice.Hide and Seek is a melodramatic story of a young deaf and dumb girl of illegitimate birth (a big no-no in Victorian society) who, through much trauma, finds herself ad
About the AuthorA prolific author of the Victorian era, Wilkie Collins (1824-89) wrote "sensation" novels. The forerunners of today's detective and suspense fiction, his best-known works include The Moonstone and The Woman in White.Charles Dickens was his lifelong friend and collaborator, and many of Collins' stories first appeared in Dickens' weekly publication, All the Year Round.
It also enabled Collins to introduce a gallery of memorable characters: Mary Grice (nicknamed Madonna), the gentle deaf-mute whose mysterious origins and tragic early life form the basis of the novel; the engaging and voluble Zach Thorpe, of whom Mary is enamored; her guardian Valentine Blyth — a failure as an artist but a success as a human being — and Matthew Marksman, the strange and wild woodsman who finally unravels the shocking story of Mary’s true origins.Hide and Seek is a distinct departure from the lurid melodrama of Collins’ second novel, Basil, and a milestone in the author’s progress toward maturity as a novelist. Dickens, Swinburne, and Macaulay all lavished praise on Hide and Seek, the third of Wilkie