The Woman in White (Classics) - Softcover

Collins, Wilkie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055321263X ISBN 13: 9780553212631

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1985

Synopsis

"There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road--there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven--stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments."

Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall readers ever since. From the hero's foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collins's narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing.

Collins's other great mystery, The Moonstone, has been called the finest detective story ever written, but it was this work that so gripped the imagination of the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed: "Author of The Woman in White."

About this title

Review:

"Collins was a master craftsman, whom many modern mystery-mongers might imitate to their profit." --Dorothy L. Sayers

Book Description:

'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah Waters

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 055321263X
• ISBN 13: 9780553212631
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 800