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Wilkie Collins 
A Rogue’s Life 

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‘A Rogue’s Life’ was published in a magazine some twenty years before it was made into a book. It is a very clever story, and the interest is well sustained throughout. There is just about enough of it, inasmuch as a short tale like this is more interesting than some of the author’s longer works, wherein the complicated plots and lengthened mysteries are too apt to weary the reader before his curiosity is satisfied. We cannot help feeling quite an affection for the ‘Rogue, ‘ perhaps because most of the other characters in the story are as selfish, more wicked, and not so frankly conceited as he is, and have none of his courage, audacity, and cleverness to redeem them. We must all sympathize in his marriage, though it is not celebrated under the most favorable circumstances, – he being liable to the extreme penalty of the law at the time. It seems hard that he should be captured, tried, and sentenced to transportation immediately after securing his wife; but this proves the beginning of his upward career of prosperity and respectability, and we leave him happily settled with Alicia in Australia. We do not wish to destroy the interest of a book which is so dependent on the plot, by telling more of the story, and therefore leave it without further comment to new readers.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9783849658168 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher Jazzybee Verlag ● City Altenmünster ● Country DE ● Published 2020 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7498884 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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