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Wilkie Collins
Sutherland, John
ISBN: 9780199535637
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
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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. This new critical edition is the first to use the original 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.
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 all Victorian fiction - Marion 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 sets new standards of suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor.
| ISBN | 0199535639 | | Volumes | 000 | | ISBN13 | 9780199535637
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 515 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Series title | Oxford World's Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780192834294 | | Publication date | 17 Apr 2008 | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Library of Congress | PR | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823.8 | | Spine width (mm) | 32 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 752 | | Alternative ISBN | 9789626348635 |
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Smartly plotted, with unforgettable characters, it's exciting, funny, romantic, frightening, and long - but not long enough. - Aileen Cook Write a review
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