Synopsis "Hide And Seek"

Hide and Seek is a novel written by Wilkie Collins. Written withinside the aftermath of Antonina his a hit debut, Hide and Seek reveals the writer honing the trademark experience of thriller and mental unease that might make him a family call across the world. Recognized as an critical Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins changed into a author with a present for considerate entertainment, testimonies written for a famous target target market that preserve to resonate with pupils and readers today. Mary Grice, a younger girl of wealth and social standing, will become pregnant after a quick affair with a person calling himself Arthur Carr. Banished from her home, she dies throughout childbirth withinside the care of a set of circus performers, who undertake the toddler as their own. Raised with the aid of using Martha Peckover, the spouse of a clown, younger Mary is exploited with the aid of using the circus proprietor following an coincidence with a horse, which leaves her deaf and mute. In order to store her, Martha brings Mary to a minister, who guarantees she is followed into a very good home. Taken in with the aid of using the Blyth family, Mary will become called Madonna for her splendor and grace, and shortly catches the attention of Zack Thorpe. As the tale unfolds, a thriller regarding Mary's father starts to take shape, with implications for her blossoming romance with Zack. Beyond its sensational plot, Hide and Seek is a masterpiece of Gothic suspense and thriller for pro readers of Victorian fiction and rookies alike.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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