The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

(Autor)

Matthew Sweet (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
720 Seiten
2003
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-143961-7 (ISBN)
11,20 inkl. MwSt
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, the 'Napoleon of crime', who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison.
'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah Waters

The original 'sensation novel', The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman 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 corridors of English country mansions and the madhouse, this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.2.2003
Reihe/Serie Penguin Classics
Einführung Matthew Sweet
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 198 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-14-143961-0 / 0141439610
ISBN-13 978-0-14-143961-7 / 9780141439617
Zustand Neuware
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