The Woman In White Av Wilkie Collins

<p><b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>The Woman in White </i>by Wilkie Collins<br></b><br><b>''In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth ... stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white''<br><br></b><i>The Woman in White</i> famously opens with Walter Hartright''s eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his ''charming'' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, <i>The Woman in White</i> is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.<br><br>The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, fro