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Article: Wilkie Collins novel to be republished.(The Dead Alive )(Brief Article)
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- December 23, 2005
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Wilkie Collins' 1874 novel The Dead Alive is to be reissued at the request of Rob Warden, the executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University's law school.
Collins' novel retells the story of Stephen and Jesse Boorn, two farmers from Vermot who were falsely convicted of murdering their brother-in-law in 1819.
In The Dead Alive Collins changed the names and location of the story and reduced the ...
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