Wilkie collins novels in order

Wilkie Collins - A Short Biography

 

[ Introduction ]  [The Early Years ]  [The Dickens Connection ]  [The Woman in White and success ]

[ The Other Woman ]  [The Moonstone ]  [The Final Years ]

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Introduction

William Wilkie Collins, or Wilkie as he was known to his friends and readers, was born in London's Marylebone where he lived more or less continuously for 65 years.

Today he is best known for The Moonstone (1868), often regarded as the first true detective novel, and The Woman in White (1860), the archetypal sensation novel. During his lifetime, however, he wrote over thirty major books, well over a hundred articles, short stories and essays, and a dozen or more plays.

 

He lived an unconventional, Bohemian lifestyle, loved good food and wine to excess, wore flamboyant clothes, travelled abroad frequently, formed long-term relationships with two women but married neither,