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The woman in white

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The Penguin English Library Edition ofThe Woman in Whiteby 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 white'

The Woman in Whitefamously 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 Whiteis the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

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Penguin
014197396X / 9780141973968
eBook (EPUB)
823.8
29/11/2012
English
503 pages
129. x 198. mm
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 227703, Points 44.00, Book Level 7.60,
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