The Woman in White

Name: The Woman in White
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9780141439617

Wilkie Collins

27/02/2003
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Woman in White par Wilkie Collins

Résumé

'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah Waters The original 'sensation novel', The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman 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 corridors of English country mansions and the madhouse, this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet