The Woman in White

The Woman in White

Classic Fiction, Fiction, Fiction & Poetry, Hardback Classics
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Hardback Published on: 01/10/2009
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The Woman in White
The Woman in White
Bound in beautiful cloth, the cover of this only hints at the brilliance inside.. A fast paced, clever thriller told through diary entries and letters of a... READ MORE
Georgie Oatley

Synopsis

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

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 is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780141192420
  • Number of pages: 720
  • Weight: 832g
  • Dimensions: 205 x 137 x 42 mm

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The Woman in White
A twisting, turning well paced classic
Reading this book for the first time it hints, tantalises and slowly develops giving a story that keeps you reading. The text, as with any classic of this ... READ MORE
Christian
The Woman in White
A compelling Victorian melodrama
Collins creates in the initial pages a surreal atmosphere and sense of unreality which jolts the reader and which is maintained by the ghostly figure of An... READ MORE
Tim Dumble
The Woman in White
the woman in white
I absolutely loved this book. I loved his style of writing and the story grabs you right away- literally couldn't put it down. It didn't disappoint me in i... READ MORE
kitty
The Woman in White
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
This is a classic which I read as a teenager I bought it for my daughter who is a student studying English Literature at University and she loved it.
ness
The Woman in White
The Woman in White
A wonderful edition of the novel. The print was easy to read; the plot is intriguing, and at times unsettling. I can understand why this novel is considere... READ MORE
Anthony Pucciarelli
The Woman in White
An old book for the modern era :)
I cannot believe that I have not read this amazing book before and equally that it was published in 1859! The Woman in White reads like a modern day psycho... READ MORE
Rob
The Woman in White
Review of the edition rather than the book
This edition is such terrible quality, even placing the book in a bag causes damage to the birds and removing the sticker completely rips off the birds. No... READ MORE
Sabrina Burton

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