Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is a major British Victorian
novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and journalist. He is best
known today as the author of DEGREESIThe Moonstone, DEGREESR which
T.S. Eliot called the first and greatest English detective novel.
He has been the subject of two recent biographies, and a revival of
interest in his works is now under way. In particular, there is
growing concern with his intellectual development, as witnessed by
the 1999 publication of his collected letters. This reconstruction
of his library offers a thorough analysis of the books he owned and
his response to them and thus illuminates Collins as a reader and
writer.
The book begins with a narrative discussion of the contents of
Collins's library and its auction. This introductory essay sheds
light on the types of books he owned, his use of those texts in his
writings, and the dispersion of his collection in 1890. The bulk of
the volume provides annotated entries for each item from his
library. Entries include publication and bibliographic information,
descriptions from sale catalogs, information about the author of
the item, citations of the book or author from Collins's letters,
and information on the present location or subsequent history of
the item. An appendix catalogs paintings and artwork in Collins's
possession at the time of his death.
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