My Lady's Money - Softcover

Collins, Wilkie; Wilkie Collins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421848759 ISBN 13: 9781421848754

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap. Time had discolored the paper, and had turned the ink to a brownish hue. The letters were all addressed to the same person-"THE RT. HON. LORD LYDIARD"-and were

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1421848759
• ISBN 13: 9781421848754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: 1stworld Library