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by Wilkie Collins (Author), John Sutherland (Editor) "THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 736 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (2 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192834290
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192834294
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 269,757 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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. 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.


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Lord Northcliffe Professor of English at University College, London, John Sutherland has edited numerous World's Classics, including several Trollopes, and Jack London. He is associate general-editor of Oxford Popular Fiction, and is currently editing the Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely excellent - read it already!, 14 Mar 1999
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This review is from: The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
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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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The most wonderful book I have ever read, 7 Jun 2001
This review is from: The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) (Mass Market Paperback)
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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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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4.0 out of 5 stars A chilling late night encounter on the road to London
A complex mystery opens with the chilling late night encounter of a young drawing teacher on the road to London with a woman in white. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining crossword
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful victorian novel of suspense and mystery
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure enjoyment from start to finish!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Shocker
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5.0 out of 5 stars Still a fantastic read after more than a century
This book was quite unlike any I had previously read. While it was written in 1859 it is still - almost 150 years later - a book as gripping as it presumably was all those years... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational
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1.0 out of 5 stars Yaaaaawwwwnnn
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