The Woman in White
Paperback. Pub Date :2012-11-29 Pages: 736 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.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 ......
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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-11-29 Pages: 736 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.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 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 ...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141389431 (0141389435)
Publish date: November 29th 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 736
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1981-01-25)Beauty is completely subjective, and in Victorian times when this novel was written, the ideal of beauty was extremely different to what we would consider attractive now. Blond, blue eyed, curly hair and very pale was considered lovely. Women went to incredible lengths t...
Come i lettori che dal 26 novembre 1859 al 25 agosto 1860 seguirono ammaliati le vicende de “La donna in bianco” uscite a puntate sulla rivista “All the Year Round” dell’amico e collega di Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, altrettanto fanno i lettori di oggi. Il segreto del fascino narrativo lo svelò...
As BrokenTune mentioned in her review here, this was a buddy read we did together after discovering we had each bought the exact same edition in charity shops on opposite sides of the world. Thank goodness I had her to buddy read with, because I'm not sure I'd have finished it otherwise, and that w...
At the ripe age of sixty, I make this unparalleled confession. Youths! I invoke your sympathy. Maidens! I claim your tears. So finally, finally I got around to reading the classic that is The Woman in White. Many thanks to Murder by Death for being my reading buddy. It certainly helped me to susta...
I really loved this book. It has hit all the right spots with me and there isn´t a single thing that bothered me, which would make my star rating be any less than five stars. The intricate plot is meticulously crafted and the characters are the most memorable I have ever encountered in a book. There...
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