Title:
The woman in white
Author:
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
ISBN:
9780192824035
9780192834294
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Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Physical Description:
xxxi, 702 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series:
World's classics
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World's classics
Abstract:
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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