num_pages: 456
description: There, in the middle of the broad bright high-road -- there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven -- stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments, her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand pointing to the dark cloud over London, as I faced her. I was far too seriously startled by the suddenness with which this extraordinary apparition stood before me, in the dead of night and in that lonely place, to ask what she wanted. The strange woman spoke first. "Is that the road to London?" she said. I looked attentively at her, as she put that singular question to me. It was then nearly one o'clock. All I could discern distinctly by the moonlight was a colorless, youthful face, meager and sharp to look at about the cheeks and chin; large, grave, wistfully attentive eyes; nervous, uncertain lips; and light hair of a pale, brownish-yellow hue. There was nothing wild, nothing immodest in her manner: it was quiet and self-controlled, a little melancholy and a little touched by suspicion; not exactly the manner of a lady, and, at the same time, not the manner of a woman in the humblest rank of life.
language: English
title: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Fiction
titlecomplete: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Fiction
characters: Anne Catherick, Frederick Fairlie, Vincent Gilmore, Count Fosco, Laura Fairlie, Marian Halcombe, Walter Hartright, Madame Fosco, Mrs. Catherick, Sir Percival Glyde
genres: Historical Fiction, Gothic, Literature, Victorian, Horror, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, 19th Century
ratings_count: 150646
places: United Kingdom, England, Cumberland, England, London, England, Hampshire, England
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: Wildside Pr