The Fallen Leaves

by Wilkie Collins

Overview

The Fallen Leaves, Wilkie Collins's novel was published in 1879, devoted to Caroline Graves. The title 'Fallen Leaves' depicts the life of four women, who are lonely and friendless and have relationship with the hero, Amelius Goldenheart. Banished from his Utopian people group because of an unlawful issue with a more seasoned lady, Amelius comes to London to enrol in the assistance of John Farnaby, a man with a scandal history. He is quickly enraptured by his manager's niece and soon our legend ends up ensnared in his new family's dim history. It is representing two outlooks- merciless wealthy society o England and utopian community in America. The novel shows the theme that it's difficult to have a successful relationship between men and women, which are neither pious nor corrupt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789356560321
Publisher:	Double 9 Booksllp
Publication date:	04/22/2022
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend and mentor. Some of Collins's works appeared first in Dickens's journals All the Year Round and Household Words and they collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins achieved financial stability and an international following with his best known works in the 1860s, but began suffering from gout. Taking opium for the pain grew into an addiction. In the 1870s and 1880s his writing quality declined with his health. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between Caroline Graves and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children.

Date of Birth:

December 8, 1824

Date of Death:

September 23, 1889

Place of Birth:

London, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Studied law at Lincoln¿s Inn, London