The clouds had gathered, within the last half-hour. The light was dull; the distance was dim. The lovely face of Nature met us, soft and still and colourless – met us without a smile.
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About Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins was a 19th-century English novelist and playwright. 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. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Inspirational — Uplifting words to motivate and inspire positive action
- Nature — Appreciation for the natural world and our place within it