The Woman in White
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Librarian note: Alternate covers can be foundhereandhere.'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 Whitefamously 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 Whiteis 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.
88
Chapters
~1056 min
Est. Listening Time
English
Language
4.0 ★
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Chapters (88)
- The Woman in White
- Wilkie Collins
- CONTENTS
- First Epoch THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT THE STORY CONTINUED BY VINCENT GILMORE THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE
- Second Epoch THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE. THE STORY CONTINUED BY FREDERICK FAIRLIE, ESQ. THE STORY CONTINUED BY ELIZA MICHELSON THE STORY CONTINUED IN SEVERAL NARRATIVES
- 1. THE NARRATIVE OF HESTER PINHORN 2. THE NARRATIVE OF THE DOCTOR 3. THE NARRATIVE OF JANE GOULD 4. THE NARRATIVE OF THE TOMBSTONE 5. THE NARRATIVE OF WALTER HARTRIGHT
- Third Epoch THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT THE STORY CONTINUED BY MRS. CATHERICK THE STORY CONTINUED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT THE STORY CONTINUED BY ISIDOR, OTTAVIO, BALDASSARE FOSCO THE STORY CONCLUDED BY WALTER HARTRIGHT
- THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT
- (of Clement’s Inn, Teacher of Drawing)
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"The Woman in White" was written by Wilkie Collins. It is classified as Mystery & Detective, Fiction, Horror & Gothic, Classic Literature, Gothic Literature.
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