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17 de abr. de 2008 · William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
Hace 4 días · The most successful examples are Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1860), Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas (1864). The sensation novel has been seen as an early kind of thriller in that it exposes dark secrets and conspiracies, but is distinguished from the classic detective story by its lack of a central detective figure.
In the 1860s Collins wrote his most famous novels, including The Woman in White and The Moonstone, but his health began to decline a decade later, and he became addicted to laudanum, which impacted his writing career. Collins died in 1889 and was buried in London; his tombstone is dedicated to “the author of The Woman in White.”
Plot Summary. The Woman in White is widely considered to be one of the first mystery novels as well as a first in the genre of “sensation” novels. It was written by Wilkie Collins in 1859 and tells a story of intrigue in London. Walter Hartright is a young art teacher. One night in London, he sees a distressed woman dressed entirely in white.
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
1 de abr. de 1985 · Wilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity ONE OF TIME ’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME “There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood thefigure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.”
17 de abr. de 2008 · 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 ...
