The Woman In White
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels have gripped the Victorian reading public with such ferocious intensity as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, a masterwork of suspense that announces itself on a moonlit London road with a mysterious figure dressed entirely in white, a chance encounter that draws drawing master Walter Hartright into a labyrinthine conspiracy of stolen identities, secret asylums, and aristocratic villainy. At its heart is the fate of the gentle Laura Fairlie, whose uncanny resemblance to the enigmatic Anne Catherick makes her a pawn in the machinations of the brilliantly sinister Count Fosco — one of English literature's most unforgettable antagonists — while the indomitable Marian Halcombe wages a fierce battle of wits to save her. First serialised in All the Year Round in 1859–1860, Collins's novel essentially founded the sensation fiction genre, pioneering the use of multiple narrators to construct a mosaic of testimony, each voice adding another layer of dread and revelation. The technique is strikingly modern, investing the reader in the mechanics of truth-telling and deception in a way that anticipates the psychological thriller by more than a century. This Heron Books edition, graced with an introduction by E. C. R. Lorac, presents Collins's novel in a form worthy of its enduring stature — a testament to why, more than 160 years after its publication, the woman on the road still has the power to make the blood run cold.
Author: Wilkie Collins
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels have gripped the Victorian reading public with such ferocious intensity as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, a masterwork of suspense that announces itself on a moonlit London road with a mysterious figure dressed entirely in white, a chance encounter that draws drawing master Walter Hartright into a labyrinthine conspiracy of stolen identities, secret asylums, and aristocratic villainy. At its heart is the fate of the gentle Laura Fairlie, whose uncanny resemblance to the enigmatic Anne Catherick makes her a pawn in the machinations of the brilliantly sinister Count Fosco — one of English literature's most unforgettable antagonists — while the indomitable Marian Halcombe wages a fierce battle of wits to save her. First serialised in All the Year Round in 1859–1860, Collins's novel essentially founded the sensation fiction genre, pioneering the use of multiple narrators to construct a mosaic of testimony, each voice adding another layer of dread and revelation. The technique is strikingly modern, investing the reader in the mechanics of truth-telling and deception in a way that anticipates the psychological thriller by more than a century. This Heron Books edition, graced with an introduction by E. C. R. Lorac, presents Collins's novel in a form worthy of its enduring stature — a testament to why, more than 160 years after its publication, the woman on the road still has the power to make the blood run cold.