Julian Thompson on Wilkie Collins

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May 15, 201217:06Education

Dr. Julian Thompson considers how Wilkie Collins's fiction was pioneering across a variety of genres, including detective fiction and gothic thrillers. He also considers Collins's progressive political outlook, picks out...

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