{"product_id":"2026100012236-secondhand-the-woman-in-white","title":"The Woman In White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nFirst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022607089883,"sku":"2026100012236-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5c75074a-2546-4a6b-84fb-ea614414f5e2.png?v=1793665283","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012236-secondhand-the-woman-in-white","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}