The Woman in White
$21.31
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
5 May 2003
Summary
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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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439617 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141439610 |
| Author: | Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 5 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 492g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 34mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“Collins was a master craftsman, whom many modern mystery-mongers might imitate to their profit.” - Dorothy L. Sayers
“Collins was a master craftsman, whom many modern mystery-mongers might imitate to their profit.” —Dorothy L. Sayers
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Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
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