The woman in white / Wilkie Collins.
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TextSeries: Penguin English libraryPublication details: London : Marshall Cavendish Ltd. 1987Description: 574 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141389431 (pbk.) :; 0141389435 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Manners and customs | Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention | Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- England -- Fiction | Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- England -- Fiction | England | England -- Social life and customs | England -- Social life and customs -- FictionGenre/Form: Fiction. DDC classification: 823.8 LOC classification: PR4494 | .W5 1987Other classification: I561.44 Also issued online.Summary: 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.
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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.
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