ASIN: B00HU9ZYXM
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 546
'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white.'.Wilkie Collins’ fifth published novel, The Woman in White caused unprecedented excitement when it appeared in 1859 and has not lost its capacity to thrill. It is arguably the author’s masterpiece and is widely regarded to be among the first mystery novels, as well as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of “sensation novels.” Collins invented the "cliff-hanger", and given the 40 or so of them that strategically punctuate his novel, it's not difficult to see why this Victorian mystery continues to enthrall us. The book famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road with a mysterious woman dressed head to toe in white. She is in a state of ...
