Collins Wilkie - The Woman In White - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award - winning Coralie Bickford - Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high - quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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.
Title: The Woman In White
Author(s): Collins Wilkie
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141192420
Pages: 720 Pages
Publication Date: 9/28/2010
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Classic Crime