Woman In White

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 the 'Napoleon of crime' who has a taste for white mice vanilla bonbons and poison.|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 the 'Napoleo...|William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist playwright and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859) No Name (1862) Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868) considered the first modern English detective novel.|William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist playwright and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859) No Name (1862) Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868) considered the first modern English detective novel.|'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah WatersThe original 'sensation novel' The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange solitary woman on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie Walter becomes embroiled in 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 corridors of English country mansions and the madhouse this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet