The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins

The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1886. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law student at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1851, although he never practiced. It was in 1848, a year after the death of his father, that he published his first book, The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A., to good reviews. The 1860s saw Collins' creative high-point, and it was during this decade that he achieved fame and critical acclaim, with his four major novels, The Woman in White (1860), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The Moonstone, meanwhile is seen by many as the first true detective novel - T. S. Eliot called it the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

“Collins’ boldness in drawing sympathetic portraits of both the wife and ‘the other woman’ is astonishingly modernThe novel well deserves to be brought back into print.” — Catherine Peters, Oxford University

Graham Law is an associate professor of English Studies at Waseda University, Japan, and the author of Reading Contemporary English Fiction. He has also written extensively on nineteenth-century suspense novels and is the editor of two other Broadview Literary Texts editions: Hard Times and Great Expectations (with Adrian Pinnington).

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ISBN 13	9781551110172
ISBN 10	1551110172
Title	The Evil Genius
Author	Wilkie Collins
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadview Press Ltd
Year published	1994-04-30
Number of pages	379
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