The Woman in White Wilkie Collins

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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

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Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot.

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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah Waters

Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Fosco, with his pet white mice running in and out of his brightly coloured waistcoat, have to do with it all? Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot . . .

The Woman in White Reviews

The most popular novel of the 19th century, and still one of the best plots in English literature. Notable for its marvellous villains and, like all Collins's work, for its complex, spirited and believable female characters -- Sarah Waters
The various women of the book - in white and otherwise - are wonderfully real -- Elizabeth Kostova
To Mr Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into ficiton those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors -- Henry James

About Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824. His father was the landscape painter William Collins. After school he worked for a tea merchant before studying to become a lawyer. In 1848 he published a biography of his father and his first novel, Antonina, followed in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens who would later edit and publish some of his novels. Collins's novels were extremely popular in his own time as well as now. The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868) are his best known works. Collins was linked with two women (one of whom bore him three children) but he never married. He died on 23 September 1889.

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Sku

CIN009951124XVG

ISBN 13

9780099511243

ISBN 10

009951124X

Title

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Author

Wilkie Collins

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2007-10-04

Number of pages

624

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

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