The woman in white
By: Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction by John Sutherland.
Contributors: Sutherland, John, 1938-
Series: The world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 702
Subjects: Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Country homes -- Fiction; Art teachers -- Fiction; Deception -- Fiction; Nobility -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.

The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in Victorian fiction - Marian Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant 'Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White set new standards for suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor.

This new critical edition is the first to use the manuscript of the novel. John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, and provides a chronology of the novel's complicated events.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [669]-702).