Dickens and Collins - New Passage
Literature
"An inventory of the resemblances between Charles Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone provides enough evidence
to suggest substantial influence. In this instance, the influence runs from Collins to Dickens, despite the fact that Dickens was originally Collins mentor. Both novels draw on the East to impart an air of exotic mystery; each has an evil character who leads
a double life, masking villainy and lust under the cloak of respectability."
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