La soirée s'écoula sans qu'elle s'adressât un mot ni un regard. Elle demeura assise au piano, et moi à la table de jeu. Elle ne cessa pas un moment de jouer, comme si en jouant elle se fuyait elle-même.Ainsi le fantôme habillé de blanc qui a hanté ces pages comme il a hanté ma vie est-il retourné au...
I enjoyed the beginning of this book, perhaps around the first 250 pages, and the multiple perspectives were enjoyable to read but I'm giving three stars because I felt in the middle and end the book became predictable, one too many "oh Laura looks like Anne an awful lot!!!" nonetheless, the writing...
It's quite amusing to think that The Woman in White is essentially the Victorian equivalent of the airport novel. It's a "sensation novel" about two sisters who find themselves in the clutches of the dastardly Sir Percival Glyde; their only hope is the existence of a mysterious woman dressed in whit...
I've long heard Wilkie Collin's Victorian classics The Woman in White and The Moonstone cited as the grandfather of the modern thriller and detective novel respectively. The introduction states that "The Woman in White assembles a dubious aristocrat, an obese Italian count with a passion for white m...
bookshelves: fraudio, classic, britain-england, re-read, victorian, play-dramatisation, epistolatory-diary-blog, boo-scary, mystery-thriller Read in June, 2009 Description: When sensation novels burst upon a quiescent England these novels became immediate best sellers, surpassing all previous bo...
Love Wilkie Collins' way with words but I felt like this story dragged in some parts. Felt like a number of the details could have been condensed or edited out. Not anything really shocking in the plot but enough little twists and turns to keep me reading to the end. I thought this was suppose to be...
My Vintage copy (ISBN: 9780099511243) have some typing/printing errors. Also Vintage doesn't have comments and introduction I much better prefer the Penguin Classics.
How do you review a literary classic? Once again I'm only reviewing as a plain reader point of view. I really liked this book. That's why I gave it four stars. Didn't give if 5 stars only because the first epoch gave me a hard time.I praise Wilkie Collins' work in this book. How he managed to write ...
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