The Queen of Hearts - Couverture souple

Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8184560990 ISBN 13 : 9788184560992

Editeur : Tutis Digital Pub, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Wilkie Collins's The Queen of Hearts (1859) is a collection of ten short stories held together by a frame narrative. Jessie comes to Wales to stay with three old brothers. George, one of the brothers' son is in love with her, but he is away from home. The brothers want her to delay her departure for ten days so that George can propose her on his return. Jesse agrees upon a condition that everybody will tell her a new story each evening. The Saturday Review wrote that These separate stories are exceedlingly well told. They are probable, interesting, and natural, and have the great merit that they stop when it is probable that in real life they would have stopped.

Biographie de l'auteur

A popular and influential English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was the son of a famous landscape painter, William Collins. Renowned for his sensational mysteries and romances, he is hailed as the inventor of the detective novel. Collins was a lawyer by training. Among his most famous works are The Woman in White (1860), and The Moonstone (1867), and No Name (1862).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Tutis Digital Pub
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 8184560990
• ISBN 13: 9788184560992
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376