The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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.
“Collins was a master craftsman, whom many modern mystery-mongers might imitate to their profit” —Dorothy L. Sayers
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141439617 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141439610 |
| Title | The Woman in White |
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 720 |
| Prizes | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003, Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
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