Collins's Moonstone: the Victorian novel as sacrifice, theft, gift and debt.

From: Studies in the Novel | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In November 1869, Wilkie Collins turned his wit to a request by Dutch magazine publishers for permission to print a translation of his forthcoming novel. The publishers did not propose entering into commercial negotiations with Collins; instead, they offered the novelist a complimentary copy of their magazine in return for "the rights," as Collins well understood, to all the revenue they would generate on the basis of his well-known name and eagerly anticipated new story. Replying that a free magazine was hardly tempting for an English novelist who did not read Dutch, Collins ...

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