The Haunted Hotel - Softcover

Collins, Wilkie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595406972 ISBN 13: 9781595406972

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2004

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in modern times. One afternoon, towards the close of the London season, the Doctor had just taken his luncheon after a specially hard morning's work in his consulting-room, and with a formidable list of visits to patients at their own houses to fill up the rest of his day - when the servant announced that a lady wished to speak to him. 'Who is she?' the Doctor asked. 'A stranger?'

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About the Author

English novelist William Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889) was a playwright and short story writer best-known for The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). He was born into the London family of painter William Collins and lived in Italy and France as a child learning French and Italian. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850 he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, collaborator and mentor. Some of his work was first published in All the Year Round and Household Words, run by Dickens, and the two collaborated on drama and fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1595406972
• ISBN 13: 9781595406972
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: 1stworld Library