The Woman in White

by Collins, W. Wilkie; Sucksmith, Peter Harvey

• ISBN13: 9780192815347
• ISBN10: 0192815342
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-05-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Who was the woman in white and what was her secret?Was she an escaped mad woman, a displaced heir, or even an unearthly apparition?This is the mystery that Marian Halcombe and Walter Hartright must solve if they have any hopes of saving their dear friend Laura Fairlie from the dark forces that wish to lay claim to her estate and her life.Masterfully filled with all of the elements of the classic Victorian thriller--seemingly unexplained apparitions, exotic dangers, a larger than life villain to rival Doyle's Moriarty, secret ancestries, and the looming threat of an asylum next door--"The Woman in White" is a classic novel of sensation that is as much of a page-turner today as it was when it was first published close to a century and half ago.

Table of Contents

The Woman in White	p. i
Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xxv
Select Bibliography	p. xxvi
A Chronology of Wilkie Collins	p. xxviii
Preface to the Present Edition	p. 3
The Story* Begun by Walter Hartright, of Clement's Inn, Teacher of Drawing	p. 5
The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor	p. 127
The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor	p. 163
The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe	p. 198
The Second Epoch	p. 198
The Story Continued by Frederick Fairlie, Esq., of Limmeridge House1	p. 345
The Story Continued by Eliza Michelson, Housekeeper at Blackwater Park	p. 364
The Third Epoch	p. 420
The Story Continued	p. 553
The Story Continued	p. 629
Preface [1860]*	p. 644
the Composition, Publication, and Reception of the Woman in White	p. 647
Original Sources for the Woman in White	p. 659
the Chronology of the Woman in White	p. 662
Explanatory Notes	p. 669
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