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The Woman In White (Vintage Classics)
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The Woman In White (Vintage Classics) Paperback - 2007

by COLLINS, WILKIE

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USA: Vintage Books/Random House, 2007. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. First published in 1860. Clean and unmarked wraps with lady in white silhouette on front, lightly bumped and scuffed on upper front spine edge. Soundly bound, spine is slightly concave with faint creasing. Pages quite clean and free from any markings. Wilkie Collins, 1824-1889, is considered to have been the first English author of bona fide detective and mystery novels. This novel's plot hinges on the resemblance of two women, one confined in an asylum in order for the unscrupulous Sir Percival Glyde to secure her money for himself. A British mystery, filled with intrigue, betrayal, insanity, and longing. 609 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. Vintage/Random House, London, Great Britain, 2007.
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  • Title The Woman In White (Vintage Classics)
  • Author COLLINS, WILKIE
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 624
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Books/Random House, USA
  • Date 2007
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 019006
  • ISBN 9780099511243 / 009951124X
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.83 x 5.15 x 1.48 in (19.89 x 13.08 x 3.76 cm)
  • Reading level 790
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

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.

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  • London Review of Books, 09/11/2008, Page 27

About the author

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an extremely popular writer during his lifetime and the author of more than 20 novels. His most acclaimed works include Armadale (1866), The Moonstone (1868), and No Name (1862).

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