- Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Apparitions
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.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and meticulous.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Wilkie Collins, William Collins
- First published
- March 23, 1999
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Verticales, Bilge Kültür Sanat, Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt
- Editions
- 653
- Language
- French, Spanish, fin, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781547055944
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 35 have read it and 357 want to.
“THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for *The Woman in White* (1859) and *The Moonstone* (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend and mentor. Some of Collins's works appeared first in Dickens's journals *All the Year Round* and *Household Words* and they collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins achieve
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
City of thieves 200878% alikeClose across the board.
The Frozen River 202377% alikeBoth earnest, grave.
The Lincoln Highway 202177% alikeBoth grave.
Dead Wake 201576% alikeBoth earnest, grave.
The Devil in the White City 200375% alikeBoth grave, earnest.
Different Seasons 198274% alikeBoth grave, earnest.
The Alienist 199473% alikeBoth grave, earnest.
A Tale of Two Cities 180073% alikeBoth earnest, grave.
Notorious 194682% alikeFilm · Both earnest.
Ministry of Fear 194481% alikeFilm · Both earnest, grave.