The Woman in White
of Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet (Annotations)
Description
'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'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 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 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.Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 672 pages
- Publisher Penguin Classics
- Publication Date 02/27/03
- First Publication 11/26/59
- Language English
- ISBN 9780141439617
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Cumberland, England', 'London, England', 'Hampshire, England', 'England', 'United Kingdom']
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