The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins [U.K. TRADE PAPERBACK] 2002 • Wordsworth Editions

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins with intro and notes by Dr. Scott Brewster

U.K. TRADE PAPERBACK RE-ISSUE [2002] WORDSWORTH

Wordsworth's Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural series.

Deluxe trade paperback.  Like new and seemingly unread.

'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 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 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.