After Dark
After Dark is Wilkie Collins's first collection of six short stories, published in 1856. The book is a series of tales supposed to be told to poor travelling portrait-painter, William Kerby, who is forced to abandon his profession for six months in order to save his sight. Collins provides a...
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After Dark is Wilkie Collins's first collection of six short stories, published in 1856. The book is a series of tales supposed to be told to poor travelling portrait-painter, William Kerby, who is forced to abandon his profession for six months in order to save his sight. Collins provides a narrative framework, which tells us how the painter came to think of publishing th
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Publisher: Gutenberg
Edition language: English
I read the edition provided free from Kindle under the anthology title "Greatest Mystery Collection". This is a collection of six short stories and novellas, of varying length and quality, all of which had previously appeared in periodical form except for "The Lady of Glenworth Grange". The stories ...