The Black Robe (Pocket Classics S.) - Softcover

Collins, Wilkie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750906545 ISBN 13: 9780750906548

Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

Lewis Romayne is a recluse, forced from his life of academic research by the dying call of an aunt in Paris. Subsequently involved in a duel, he returns a broken man, until he meets Stella Eyrecourt and marriage becomes a possibility. But a face from the past begins a battle for Romayne's soul.

About this title

About the Author

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 novela genre combining shocking gothic horror with everyday domestic settingsand 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750906545
• ISBN 13: 9780750906548
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272