Name: The Evil Genius of Venus: Book Two: The Daemon Doctor
SKU: 57492446
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Author: Bucher-Jones, Simon ; Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781716923210

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The Evil Genius of Venus: Book Two: The Daemon Doctor

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Simon Bucher-Jones

Publisher

Lulu.com

Language

English

Pages

148

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8x0.8 cm

Weight

0.19 kg.

ISBN13

9781716923210

Synopsis "The Evil Genius of Venus: Book Two: The Daemon Doctor"

Sydney Westerfield has taken up her post as Governess, at Mount Morven House - a research establishment in Caithness where a vital secret experiment is underway. She is to tutor Kitty, the daughter of Herbert Linley and his wife Catherine, while they and Herbert's brother Professor Randal work on the Linley Process - a means of converting normal matter to the 'dark-matter' antigravity material that has taken humanity to the planets. But unknown to Sydney, the core of their machine is one of the cursed gems, whose history is so entangled in hers - and the hand of Valdavor Va - the Evil Genius Of Venus - is stretching out to grasp it!

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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