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27%OFFWilkie Collins - The Woman in White - 9781857150186 - V9781857150186
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The Woman in White

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Description for The Woman in White Hardcover. Wilkie Collins' sixth novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860, when everything from dances to dresses was named after the "woman in white". Nicholas Rance is the author of "Historical Novel and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England". Num Pages: 569 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 37. Weight in Grams: 708.

'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'

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
569
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
569
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857150186
SKU
V9781857150186
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About Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824. His father was the landscape painter William Collins. After school he worked for a tea merchant before studying to become a lawyer. In 1848 he published a biography of his father and his first novel, Antonina, followed in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens who would later edit and ... Read more

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