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The Woman in White

By Wilkie Collins
Introduction by Anne Perry

By Wilkie Collins
Introduction by Anne Perry

By Wilkie Collins

By Wilkie Collins

By Wilkie Collins
Introduction by Nicholas Rance

By Wilkie Collins
Introduction by Nicholas Rance

By Wilkie Collins

By Wilkie Collins

Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $12.00

Jan 08, 2002 | 704 Pages

Mass Market Paperback $6.95

Apr 01, 1985 | 800 Pages

Hardcover $24.00

Oct 15, 1991 | 656 Pages

Ebook $1.99

Feb 26, 2008 | 800 Pages

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    About The Woman in White

    Generally considered the first English sensation novel, The Woman in White features the remarkable heroine Marian Halcombe and her sleuthing partner, drawing master Walter Hartright, pitted against the diabolical team of Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde. A gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity, Collins’s psychological thriller has never been out of print in the 140 years since its publication. Anne Perry writes in her Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic (set from the “New Edition” of 1861), “[The Woman in White] has lasted, to our great pleasure, because it is superb storytelling about people who engage our minds and our imaginations.”

    About The Woman in White

    “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.”

    Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall readers ever since. From the hero’s foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collins’s narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing.

    Collins’s other great mystery, The Moonstone, has been called the finest detective story ever written, but it was this work that so gripped the imagination of the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed: “Author of The Woman in White.”

    About The Woman in White

    Wilkie Collins’s classic thriller took the world by storm on its first appearance in 1859, with everything from dances to perfumes to dresses named in honor of the “woman in white.”  The novel’s continuing fascination stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama, comedy, and realism; and in part from the power of its story.  
       
    The catalyst for the mystery is Walter Hartright’s encounter on a moonlit road with a mysterious woman dressed head to toe in white.  She is in a state of confusion and distress, and when Hartright helps her find her way back to London she warns him against an unnamed “man of rank and title.”  Hartright soon learns that she may have escaped from an asylum and finds to his amazement that her story may be connected to that of the woman he secretly loves.  Collins brilliantly uses the device of multiple narrators to weave a story in which no one can be trusted, and he also famously creates, in the figure of Count Fosco, the prototype of the suave, sophisticated evil genius.  The Woman in White is still passed as a masterpiece of narrative drive and excruciating suspense. 

    Introduction by Nicholas Rance

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

    About The Woman in White

    Wilkie Collins’s classic thriller took the world by storm on its first appearance in 1859, with everything from dances to perfumes to dresses named in honor of the “woman in white.”  The novel’s continuing fascination stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama, comedy, and realism; and in part from the power of its story.  
       
    The catalyst for the mystery is Walter Hartright’s encounter on a moonlit road with a mysterious woman dressed head to toe in white.  She is in a state of confusion and distress, and when Hartright helps her find her way back to London she warns him against an unnamed “man of rank and title.”  Hartright soon learns that she may have escaped from an asylum and finds to his amazement that her story may be connected to that of the woman he secretly loves.  Collins brilliantly uses the device of multiple narrators to weave a story in which no one can be trusted, and he also famously creates, in the figure of Count Fosco, the prototype of the suave, sophisticated evil genius.  The Woman in White is still passed as a masterpiece of narrative drive and excruciating suspense. 

    Introduction by Nicholas Rance

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)




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    About Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of a successful painter, William Collins. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but never practiced his nominal profession, devoting his time to writing instead. His… More about Wilkie Collins

    About Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of a successful painter, William Collins. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but never practiced his nominal profession, devoting his time to writing instead. His… More about Wilkie Collins

    About Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of a successful painter, William Collins. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but never practiced his nominal profession, devoting his time to writing instead. His… More about Wilkie Collins

    About Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of a successful painter, William Collins. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but never practiced his nominal profession, devoting his time to writing instead. His… More about Wilkie Collins

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $12.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 08, 2002 | 704 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375759062

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Mass Market Paperback | $6.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Apr 01, 1985 | 800 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553212631

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Hardcover | $24.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 15, 1991 | 656 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679405634

    Category: Fiction Classics | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Feb 26, 2008 | 800 Pages | ISBN 9780553904666

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    “Collins was a master craftsman, whom many modern mystery-mongers might imitate to their profit.” —Dorothy L. Sayers

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