An edition of The Woman in White (1859)

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An edition of The Woman in White (1859)

The woman in white

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The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.

The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in Victorian fiction - Marian Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant 'Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White set new standards for suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor.

This new critical edition is the first to use the manuscript of the novel. John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, and provides a chronology of the novel's complicated events.

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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
702

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The Woman in White
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1937, Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [669]-702).

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Oxford, New York
Series
The world's classics
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4494 .W5 1996, PR4494.W5 1996

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Pagination
xxxi, 702 p. :
Number of pages
702

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1279360M
ISBN 10
0192824031
LCCN
95011152
OCLC/WorldCat
32510307
LibraryThing
15585
Goodreads
2852772

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL176045W

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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.

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