The woman in white / Wilkie Collins ; with an afterword by David Stuart Davies.

By:

Collins, Wilkie [author.]

Contributor(s):

Davies, David Stuart [author of afterword, colophon, etc.]

Publication details: London : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2018.Description: 655 pages ; 16 x 10 cmISBN:

9781509869367 (hardback)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

DDC classification:

823.8 23

Summary: The first and greatest of the bestselling Victorian thrillers known as 'sensation novels', The Woman in White opens with a chilling encounter between drawing teacher Walter Hartright and a ghostly female figure on a moonlit road. From this moment Walter is drawn into a terrifying world of intrigue, crime, disguise and insanity, as he tries to save his beautiful pupil Laura from the sinister plans of Sir Percival Glyde and the 'Napoleon of Crime', Count Fosco, in one of the most gripping plots in English fiction.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reserves
Book	Melbourne Athenaeum Library	Fiction - Crime	COL	Available		063799

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Originally published: 1860.

The first and greatest of the bestselling Victorian thrillers known as 'sensation novels', The Woman in White opens with a chilling encounter between drawing teacher Walter Hartright and a ghostly female figure on a moonlit road. From this moment Walter is drawn into a terrifying world of intrigue, crime, disguise and insanity, as he tries to save his beautiful pupil Laura from the sinister plans of Sir Percival Glyde and the 'Napoleon of Crime', Count Fosco, in one of the most gripping plots in English fiction.

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