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The Woman In White : Penguin English Library
Paperback Edition: 1
'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.
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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. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Pages : 719
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Publication date : 2012-11
Subjects: Fiction, Published in the UK, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Crime / Thrillers, Historical Fiction