威尔基·柯林斯(Wilkie Collins),于1824年1月8日生于伦敦,1889年9月23日死在伦敦。父亲是个风景画家。他12岁时随父母迁居意大利,三年后回国,就读于海伯里私立寄宿学校,曾在茶叶公司工作,后改学法律,在伦敦林肯法学协会当过律师。1847年,父亲死后,他才开始以写作为生。第一部作品是《威廉·柯林斯》传,不久就从事小说创作。一开始成绩平平,后来他结识了当代文豪狄更斯,成为莫逆之交,并为狄更斯主编的,当时最风行的杂志经常撰稿。他的长篇小说往往在这本杂志上先发表,然后出单行本。这期间他写了不少小说,大都以侦破犯罪事件为题材,柯林斯即以此种小说蜚声社会,享誉30余年,但他作品虽多,而得以流传后世并得到肯定的仅有《月亮宝石》和成名作《白衣女人》两部。
“There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.”
Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall readers ever since. From the hero’s foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collins’s narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing.
Collins’s other great mystery, The Moonstone, has been called the finest detective story ever written, but it was this work that so gripped the imagination of the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed: “Author of The Woman in White .”
“柯林斯擅长精心编织故事,现代的推理小说家们向他所学甚多。” ——桃乐丝•赛儿丝,英国著名推理小说家 作者可以算福尔摩斯第二了,我觉得.
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