num_pages: 672
description: Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here.'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 White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in 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 combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history.
language: English
title: The Woman in White
titlecomplete: The Woman in White
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: Penguin Classics