Author: Wilkie Collins First Published: 1859-60, in All the Year Round The below is adapted from an essay I wrote for The Guardian UK online. Often singled out as the foundation text of “sensation fiction”—a genre distinguished by its electrifying, suspenseful, and sometimes horrific plots, as well as its unsavoury themes of intrigue, jealousy, murder, […]
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