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La donna in bianco (The Woman in White) è un romanzo di Wilkie Collins scritto nel 1859.Uscì a puntate, secondo la tradizione dei feuilleton, nel 1859 - 1860, nella rivista di Charles Dickens All the Year Round, suscitando l'entusiasmo e l'ammirazione del pubblico.. Fu il primo libro a essere definito sensation novel (un genere che avrà molta fortuna nell'età vittoriana), pieno di colpi di ...
DON'T READ THIS BOOK, unless you've got the patience, stamina, and requisite taste for a quintessential mid-Victorian novel. If you don't, you'll think The Woman in White is terribly overwrought and 500 pages too long. If you like Victorian writing, you'll think this is a well-drawn, balanced novel with characters to root for, characters to despise, a twisting plot that rolls up seamlessly ...
The Woman in White Summary. Walter Hartright, a young drawing teacher who lives in London, needs a job and an escape from the city for the autumn months. One night he goes to visit his mother and sister, Sarah, and is surprised to find his friend Professor Pesca, a cheerful Italian whom Walter once saved from drowning, waiting for him at the ...
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.
17 de may. 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.
A Chronology Of Wilkie Collins; The Woman in White; The Story* begun by Walter Hartright, of Clement’s Inn, Teacher of Drawing; The Story continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor; The Story continued by Marian Halcombe, in Extracts from her Diary; The Second Epoch; The Story continued by Frederick Fairlie, Esq., of Limmeridge ...
The events described in the novel take place in the 1850s in England. A young painter from London, Walter Hartright, secures a position as an art teacher at Limmeridge House in Cumberland, which belongs to Frederick Fairlie.On a hot summer night prior to his departure, Walter meets a very strange woman on the empty street, who is dressed in a completely white dress.
