The Woman In White

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition:

Description: 574 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 whiteThe Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartrights 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 White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.Matthew Sweets introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian sensation fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collinss biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history.

ISBN: 0863076742