First sentence: "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."P. 99: "I doubted for a moment whether I ought to follow and speak to her or not."Last sentence: "Marian was the good angel of our lives - let Marian end our Story."I have to admit that...
Finishing this audiobook felt like an achievement. The book is long and complex and required concentration and commitment. But what a journey it has been! As is the case with the only other of Wilkie Collins' novels I have read to date, The Moonstone, the book is structured as a number of separate ...
I actually listened to this book as an audio book done by Librivox. It was a very well done recording and I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I found the story a bit hard to follow. I lost track of who was who and how they fit in the story. It was not really until the Third Epoch that I figured out who ...
I've never liked the term "butterface." I don't object to the objectification; I just don't like the sound of it. Nonetheless, it unavoidably popped into my head at my introduction from behind to Miss Halcombe, as Collins allows Hartright to ogle "the rare beauty of her form...[and] her waist, perfe...
A Chronology of Wilkie Collins's LifeIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the Text--The Woman in WhiteAppendix A: Theatrical Adaptations of 'The Woman in White'Appendix B: Wilkie Collins on the Composition of 'The Woman in White'Appendix C: The Serialization of 'The Woman in White' in All The Year R...
A Chronology of Wilkie Collins's LifeIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the Text--The Woman in WhiteAppendix A: Theatrical Adaptations of 'The Woman in White'Appendix B: Wilkie Collins on the Composition of 'The Woman in White'Appendix C: The Serialization of 'The Woman in White' in All The Year R...
Brillantly written through the eyes of several different characters in the story. Hardly dated, although the plot now and then is not of our time. The many turns in the story compensate this fully. A extremely good read.
I read way too much Victorian stuff when I was little. Girls were always fainting and I would sit in church on Sundays, eyeing the altar boys and deciding which one’s arms I was going to faint into. It seemed such a romantic thing to do. On the other hand, the likelihood of ever fainting seemed poor...
Who says that a long Victorian Era novel has to be dry and tedious? While some writers go off on lavish descriptions of the wall paper and drapes, Collins sticks to the point. Every word progresses the labyrinthine plot to its satisfying conclusion. Full of mystery and intrigue until the final page!...
I was reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines in parallel and was struck in realization by this book how stories really are connected to each other across the time. Some elements of TWIW were taken in Fingersmith and were twisted,...
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