The Woman in White
(Paperback)
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Published: 29th November 1991
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Publishing Details
The Woman in White
By (Author) Wilkie Collins
Edited by Matthew Sweet
Introduction by Matthew Sweet
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
5th May 2003
27th February 2003
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.8
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
Physical Properties
Paperback
720
Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 31mm
488g
Description
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
Reviews
Collins was a master craftsman, whom many modern mystery-mongers might imitate to their profit. Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Bio
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
