Wee Wilkie

摘要

This may be Charles Dickens's bicente nary, but Peter Ackroyd, having already written of that great author, has turned in stead to his friend, Wilkie Collins, perhaps "the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists". In this slim volume Mr Ackroyd skips along at a lively pace, tracing the arc of Collins's life, from his happy childhood to his success as a novelist and playwright and his laudanum-laced decline.