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A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, A Rogues Life follows the fortunes of an endearing young man. Proffering his own take on picaresque storytellingand with many a grain of truth for twenty-somethings todaythis is Wilkie Collins at his entertaining best.Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank Softly is introduced to a variety of professions in order to make his fortune. Not industrious by nature, however, Frank finds working life a challenge, and by his twenty-fifth birthday, he has failed medicine, portrait-painting, caricaturing, and even forgery. Disenchanted with life, he despairs of ever finding something to commit tountil he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father. The author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins (182489) is widely regarded as the originator of the detective novel.
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