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A Terribly Strange Bed" is a short story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1852 in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens.Written in the narrative, the story is about a young man staying in Paris, after finishing his college education, and is exploring the amusements there. As a change from respectable establishments, he visits a low gambling house, where a variety of unsavory characters are playing Rouge e Noir. There he meets a “dissolute-looking elderly man, formerly a soldier in the French army” who encourages him to continue to gamble. From there on, our narrator becomes a victim of an unscrupulous team of villains.
A Terribly Strange Bed" is a short story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1852 in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens.Written in the narrative, the story is about a young man staying in Paris, after finishing his college education, and is exploring the amusements there. As a change from respectable establishments, he visits a low gambling house, where a variety of unsavory characters are playing Rouge e Noir. There he meets a “dissolute-looking elderly man, formerly a soldier in the French army” who encourages him to continue to gamble. From there on, our narrator becomes a victim of an unscrupulous team of villains.
Wilkie Collins
A close friend of Charles Dickens' from their meeting in March 1851 until Dickens' death in June 1870, William "Wilkie" Collins was one of the best known, best loved, and, for a...
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