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The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Wilkie Collins (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 569 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (27 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140620249
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140620245
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,003 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright’s eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his ‘charming’ friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely excellent - read it already!, 14 Mar 1999
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Wonderfully entertaining stuff - this is essentially a pre-television soap opera, much like the novels of Dickens or George Eliot.

The essentials of the story are as follows: our hero is a young painter hired as tutor to a young heiress. The lady in question is remarkably pretty, innocent, sweet-tempered (etc etc) and inevitably our hero falls for her hook, line & sinker. Needless to say the path of true love doesn't run smoothly and not only are they separated, but the heiress is subject to the wicked plots of marvellously nefarious villains.

Sounds cheesy as anything, I know; but the story is fast paced, convoluted and frequently (intentionally!) very funny. Because Collins employs a first person narrative technique, telling his tale through one character's diary then another one's letters, we are allowed an insight into the thoughts and speech patterns of a wide range of characters. Some of them are downright hilarious - particularly our heroine's outrageously camp uncle. As so often happens, it is the secondary (and indeed bit-part) characters who are the most entertaining - the fabulous Marianne (just wait till you read that initial description of her appearance! The contrast between standards of beauty now & then is remarkable...although granted it sounds like she needed immac for that top lip of hers) and the indomitable Count with his pet white mice scampering around, to name my two favourites - and undoubtedly your own. What are you waiting for?

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The most wonderful book I have ever read, 7 Jun 2001
I took a few pages to click into the Victorian narrative but once I was into it, it gripped from start to finish. This book has the most wonderfully drawn characters and because it switches narrators several times ( Wilkie Collins does this to great effect also in 'The Moonstone') you are just getting lulled into the perspective of one person, when you are then gently jolted and led along by another.

If you want a book with love, romance, mystery and an undercurrent of the sinister running through it I promise you will not be disappointed. You will then be so hooked by Wilkie Collin's writing style that you will want to devour the rest of his books immediately.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A carefully plotted, taut thriller of the old-fashioned kind, 24 Dec 1999
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`The Woman in White' is a pleasure to read in a simple (but not simplistic) writing style that draws the reader carefully into the plot. All of Collins' novels are a joy and this is no exception. The plot is woven intricately and the mysery continues until almost the last possible moment, involving a cast of diverse and realistic characters. As a contemporary and close friend of Dickens, Collins had a lot to live up to. However, where Dickens is wordy, Collins uses well-chosen words to conjour an atmosphere of unease and inscrutability. This book is a definite must.
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The first time I read The Woman in White, I found the first few chapters quite hard to get into but I was so glad that I persevered! Read more
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For me what makes this novel great is not the love story between the social rising Walter Hartright and childish stereotypical heroine Laura Fairlie. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Yaaaaawwwwnnn
This book is the most rambling, tiresome thing i have ever had the displeasure of reading. I finished it only because it was on my A level syllabus. Avoid like the plague
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