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Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress.
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 ...
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.
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.”
La dama de blanco (The Woman in White) es una novela epistolar escrita por Wilkie Collins en 1859, serializada de 1859 a 1860 en la revista literaria All the Year Round fundada por Charles Dickens. [1] Fue publicada por primera vez en forma de libro ese último año. En 1995, la Mystery Writers of America la incluyó en su lista de las cien mejores novelas de misterio de todos los tiempos.
The Bookworms Library is a new edition of the Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series. It builds on the success of the original Bookworms, while extending the range of activities and teaching support. Each title has been chosen for its enjoyment value, skilful story-telling and quality of writing. Six graded stages provide more than 130 stories at different levels of ability.
2 de mar. de 2011 · Wilkie Collins (b. 1824–d. 1889) was one of the most influential authors of the 19th century. He was credited with creating sensation fiction with his best-known work The Woman in White in 1860 and detective fiction with The Moonstone in 1868. He wrote novels, plays, short stories, and journalism.
