Wilki Collins. Akraid P.

The biographical works of the famous British novelist and philologist Peter Akraid invariably are successful with Russian readers. As for the subject of his biographical study - Wilki Collins, the writer, this author has long become part of the Russian literary picture of the world, because the “Moonstone” and “Woman in White” since the 1970s have served as a decoration of home libraries. Akraid talks about Wilka Collins’s life, his friendship and cooperation with Dickens, travel, books - and at the same time draws a multifaceted picture of the life of Victorian England.

The book is published for the first time in Russian.