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Summary:
Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, & international intrigue. In this new edition, John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, & provides a chronology of the novel's complicated events.
ISBN:
9780199535637
9780141389431
0891902422
0765353954
0553211862 (pbk.)
0460004646 (cased)
0375759069 (pbk)
Publisher, Date:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2008]
Description:
xxxvi, 702 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"First published as a World Classics paperback 1996"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN:
2008273820
Series:
Oxford world's classicsOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.Fraud -- Fiction.
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- England -- History -- Fiction.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
Young women -- England -- Fiction.
Genre:
Gothic fiction.Romance fiction.
Other Authors:
Sutherland, John, 1938- editor, writer of introduction.
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