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Dramatisations and readings of his sensational stories including The Woman in White & The Moonstone

The Wilkie Collins BBC Radio Collection

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Penguin Readers Level 7: The Woman in White (ELT Graded Reader)

Four BBC Radio 4 crime dramatisations

The Lady Detectives

The Woman in White

The Moonstone

No Name

The Haunted Hotel

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The Woman In White

Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse's Mouth

Resurrection

Collected Non Fiction

I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking

Selected Stories and Essays

In a Yellow Wood

A Room of One’s Own

The Patrick Melrose Novels

The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name ; No Name  In The  Street; The Devil Finds Work

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Motherless Brooklyn; Fortress of Solitude

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The House on Mango Street

Byron's Travels

Novels, Tales, Journeys

The Essential Harlem Detectives

The White Guard

Orlando

The Intuitionist

Hope Against Hope

The Best of Tagore

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824. His father was the landscape painter William Collins. After school he worked for a tea merchant before studying to become a lawyer. In 1848 he published a biography of his father and his first novel, Antonina, followed in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens who would later edit and publish some of his novels. Collins's novels were extremely popular in his own time as well as now. The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868) are his best known works. Collins was linked with two women (one of whom bore him three children) but he never married. He died on 23 September 1889.

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