The Woman in White Contributor(s): Collins, Wilkie (Author), Sweet, Matthew (Editor), Sweet, Matthew (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0141439610 ISBN-13: 9780141439617 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Thrillers - Psychological - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Victorian |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2003267781 |
Lexile Measure: 790 |
Series: Penguin Classics |
Physical Information: 1.24" H x 5.11" W x 7.75" (1.07 lbs) 720 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |