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 …
Wilkie Collins: The woman in white. (1969, Houghton Mifflin)
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.
514 Seiten
Sprache: English
Am 6. Januar 1969 von Houghton Mifflin veröffentlicht.
Themen
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Country homes -- Fiction
- Art teachers -- Fiction
- Deception -- Fiction
- Nobility -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction
