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Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

The Woman in White tells the story of Walter Hartright, a young and impoverished drawing teacher who falls in love with his aristocratic pupil, Laura Fairlie. He cannot hope to marry her, however, and she is married off against her will to a baronet, Sir Percival Glyde, who is seeking her fortune. The terms of her marriage settlement prevent Glyde accessing her money while she lives, so together with his deceptively charming and cunning friend, Count Fosco, they hatch an unscrupulous deception to do so nonetheless. In an early 19th Century version of “identity theft,” they contrive to fake Laura’s death and confine her to a mental asylum. Their plot is eventually uncovered and exposed by Hartright with the help of Laura’s resourceful half-sister, Marian Halcombe.
The Woman in White was the most popular of Wilkie Collins’ novels in the genre then known as “sensation fiction.” It has never been out of print and is frequently included in lists of the best novels of all time. Published initially in serial form in 1859–60, it achieved an early and remarkable following, probably because of the strength of its characters, in particular the smooth and charming but utterly wicked villain Count Fosco, and the intelligent and steadfast Marian Halcombe opposed to him.
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  • Chandana Sahudelade ett intryckför 4 år sedan
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    I love the character of Marian Halcombe - her boldness and sharp intelligibility

  • Oraldelade ett intryckför 4 år sedan

    Always refreshing

  • croubysnoogdelade ett intryckför 5 år sedan
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    Great depiction of the victotian society and its obsessions

Citat

  • b1219793562har citeratför 2 år sedan
    The natural impulse

    Естественное побуждение

  • b1219793562har citeratför 2 år sedan
    to say the least of it.

    если не сказать больше об этом.

  • Лилиhar citeratför 3 dagar sedan
    should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of all my energies, who has become the one guiding influence that now directs the purpose of my life.

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