Collins Wilkie - The Woman In White - Paperback
Collins Wilkie - The Woman In White - Paperback
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Description: The most popular novel of the nineteenth century and still one of the best plots in English literature Sarah Waters The original 'sensation novel' The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange solitary woman on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie Walter becomes embroiled in 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 corridors of English country mansions and the madhouse this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet
Title: The Woman In White
Author(s): Collins Wilkie, Matthew Sweet
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141439617
Pages: 720 Pages
Publication Date: 4/29/2003
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: The most popular novel of the nineteenth century and still one of the best plots in English literature Sarah Waters The original 'sensation novel' The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange solitary woman on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie Walter becomes embroiled in 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 corridors of English country mansions and the madhouse this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet
Title: The Woman In White
Author(s): Collins Wilkie, Matthew Sweet
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141439617
Pages: 720 Pages
Publication Date: 4/29/2003
Category: Classic Fiction