The Woman in White
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant `Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White sets new standards of suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor.ABOUT THE SERIES: For…
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Weitere Autoren: Sutherland, John (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-159335-2
- EAN: 9780191593352
- Produktnummer: 13940742
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 30'302 KB
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Lord Northcliffe Professor of English at University College, London, John Sutherland has edited numerous World's Classics, including several Trollopes, and Jack London. He is associate general-editor of Oxford Popular Fiction, and is currently editing the Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction.
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