A Rogue's Life From His Birth to His Marriage. Little Novels, Miss Duane and My Lord, Mr. Policeman and the Cook brings together Wilkie Collins's taste for comic misadventure, social disguise, and narrative speed. A Rogue's Life follows a charmingly unreliable figure through schemes and consequences, while the shorter pieces show Collins working with compact plots, secrets, and reversals.
A Rogue's Life is lighter than Wilkie Collins's major sensation novels, but it reveals his delight in rogues, social performance, and the mechanics of surprise. The collection suits readers who want Collins in a playful and varied mode. Fans of Victorian popular fiction, comic crime, hidden motives, and brisk storytelling will find an entertaining side path through his work.
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