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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19940109
Author:Dennis Drabelle

THE KING OF INVENTORS

A Life of Wilkie Collins

By Catherine Peters

Princeton University Press. 502 pp. $29.95

CYRIL CONNOLLY once called for a shift of archaeological resources from disinterring potsherds to recovering the lost plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles - a sentiment with which I high-mindedly concur. Truth be told, though, what my literary id really craves is the discovery - inside, say, a locked trunk mired in a rippling English quicksand - of a lost novel written by Wilkie Collins during his glorious burst of creativity from 1859 to 1870.

It was then that the master plotter of ...

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