{"product_id":"2026200013772-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: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne moonlit night on a lonely road outside London, a young drawing master named Walter Hartright encounters a mysterious woman dressed entirely in white — terrified, alone, and running from unknown pursuers — and with that single, electric moment, Wilkie Collins sets in motion one of the most gripping tales of conspiracy, identity, and hidden crime in the Victorian literary canon. The Woman in White chronicles Walter's subsequent entanglement with the beautiful Marian Halcombe and the ethereal Laura Fairlie, whose uncanny resemblance to the woman on the road draws him into a web of deceit spun by the chilling Sir Percival Glyde and his sinister confederate, the masterfully menacing Count Fosco.\n\nFirst published in 1859–60 as a serial in Charles Dickens's periodical All the Year Round, this landmark novel is widely regarded as one of the earliest and finest examples of the sensation fiction genre, pioneering the use of multiple narrators to build suspense and interrogate the reliability of memory and testimony. Collins writes with surgical precision and psychological acuity, constructing a plot that turns on questions of legal identity, the vulnerability of women under Victorian law, and the terrifying ease with which the powerful can erase the powerless. A masterwork that remains as taut and unsettling today as it was over 160 years ago, it leaves the reader questioning just how well we can ever truly know another person — or ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160897724635,"sku":"2026200013772-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/806b803d-bb04-443c-a79c-6366bef13a18.png?v=1787188249","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013772-secondhand-the-woman-in-white","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}