The Woman in White

ISBN-13: 9780099511243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 609 str.

Wilkie Collins

Opis

Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle s guardianship until Laura s marriage to Sir Percival Glyde, who is a man of many secrets. "Could he be connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Foscowhose white pet mice enjoy running in and out of his waistcoathave to do with it all? "Marian and the girls drawing master, Walter, must turn detective in order to uncover the truth and to protect Laura from a fatal plot."

Recenzje

The most popular novel of the 19th century, and still one of the best plots in English literature. Notable for its marvellous villains and, like all Collins's work, for its complex, spirited and believable female characters Sarah Waters

O autorze

Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824. His father was the landscape painter William Collins. After school he worked for a tea merchant before studying to become a lawyer. In 1848 he published a biography of his father and his first novel, Antonina, followed in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens who would later edit and publish some of his novels. Collins's novels were extremely popular in his own time as well as now. The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868) are his best known works. Collins was linked with two women (one of whom bore him three children) but he never married. He died on 23 September 1889.