The Woman in White

by Collins, William Wilkie; Sutherland, John

• ISBN13: 9780192834294
• ISBN10: 0192834290
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-09
• 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(18)
Note on the Text	xxv	(1)
Select Bibliography	xxvi	(2)
A Chronology of Wilkie Collins	xxviii
THE WOMAN IN WHITE	I	(643)
The 1860 Preface	644	(3)
Appendix A: The Composition, Publication, and Reception of The Woman in White	647	(12)
Appendix B: Original Sources for The Woman in White	659	(3)
Appendix C: The Chronology of The Woman in White	662	(7)
Explanatory Notes	669