by Wilkie Collins · tapa dura · ISBN 9788492769384
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Monkton the Madman is a work by Wilkie Collins, with illustrations by Fidel Martínez. This gothic tale tells the story of a family living in a ruined abbey and carrying a hereditary curse of madness. The stories gathered in this selection demonstrate the author's ability to keep the reader in suspense, with intricate plots and characters that make each story a chronicle of the dark side of everyday life.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
