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A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins

Description: ISBN 1843911329 / Author: Wilkie Collins / Genre: Classic Literature / Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank Softly is ... more

A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins ... introduced to a variety of professions in order to make his fortune. Not industrious by nature, however, Frank finds working life something of a challenge, and by his twenty-fifth birthday, he has failed at medicine, portrait painting, caricaturing and even forgery. Disenchanted with life, he despairs of ever finding something to commit to – until he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father.

Newest Review: ... included in Dickens's Household Words, but later Collins added a few words and wrote an introductory passage and it was put ... more

... into print as a small book. Wilkie Collins was fond of `The Rogue` and apparently intimated that he would be writing a follow up but sadly this idea never got off of the ground. The story centres around the life of young Frank Softly. Young Frank sees himself as head and shoulders above others and this puts him at a disadvantage. Franks father decides that a spell at boarding school would put him on the right track, he would mix with the right sort of people and rub the right shoulders. But those plans go awry, Frank ...more

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A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins: How to be a Rogue. (987 words)
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The Victorian English novelist Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, sadly from birth Wilkie did not enjoy good health, he was a fragile child who had been born with a skull deformation. During his late teens Wilkie tried his hand at fictitious writing and this culminated in his first tale `The Last stagecoach man` being printed in 1843. At the age of 27 Collins forged a firm friendship with Charles Dickens, they had common interests which included a love of writing and amateur dramatics. Dickens was the main motivation for Collins who in 1856 joined the team who wrote Dickens Household Works, a middle class weekly magazine that stood behind the ... Read the complete review