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    The Tête Noire
    The Tête Noire
    The Tête Noire
    Audiobook43 minutes

    The Tête Noire

    Written by Charles Allston Collins

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    Charles Allston Collins (1828-1873) was the younger brother of the novelist Wilkie Collins, and was married to Charles Dickens's daughter Kate. He is well known both as a painter and a novelist.

    In The Tête Noire, he describes a racy tale of a commercial traveller and his dog who stayed at a most disreputable French coaching inn, whose landlord would appear to be a cunning criminal, and his young daughter just as wicked.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateMay 23, 2014
    ISBN9781467681544
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