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by Wilkie Collins (Author) "It was the last day of July..." (more)
Key Phrases: mighty merchant, personal resemblance, own detection, Sir Percival, Miss Halcombe, Lady Glyde (more...)

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Mass Market Paperback: 800 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics (April 1, 1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 055321263X
ISBN-13: 978-0553212631
Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mighty merchant, personal resemblance, own detection, next proceeding, lamented friend, marble cross, marriage engagement

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Sir Percival, Miss Halcombe, Lady Glyde, Anne Catherick, Miss Fairlie, Blackwater Park, Count Fosco, Madame Fosco, Limmeridge House, Old Welmingham, John's Wood, Hartright's Narrative, Walter Hartright, Todd's Corner, Laura Fairlie, Marian Halcombe, Frederick Fairlie, Philip Fairlie, Madame Rubelle, Margaret Porcher, Monsieur Rubelle, Varneck Hall, Sir Felix, Central America, Major Donthorne

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No Name (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins in Front Matter, and Back Matter
The Frozen Deep (Hesperus Classics) by Wilkie Collins in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Wilkie Collins: A Biography by Kenneth Robinson in Back Matter
Heart and Science (Broadview Literary Texts) by Wilkie Collins in Back Matter
Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson in Back Matter

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Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Bradley Deane on 12 pages
The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders (Contributions in Women's Studies) by Marilyn Demarest Button on 11 pages
No Name (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins on 8 pages
The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Barbara Harman on 5 pages

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5.0 out of 5 stars Innocence, Villainy and Heroism, February 3, 2003

By	Lance C. Panzer (the Great Lakes) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Laura Fairly is the innocent, the young, sheltered, Victorian maiden who abides by her departed father's wishes. On his deathbed, he bids her to marry Sir Percival Glyde. Enter villainy. The grasping, frightened, short-tempered Sir Percival insists on a speedy wedding. He handily dispatches any obstacles thrown up in his path; he is damned and determined to wed Laura--and her fortune. But Laura has a sister, Marian, a strong-willed, independent, fiercely loyal sister who at first champions the marriage and then recoils once she realizes the true nature of Sir Percival. The man is a monster. And Marian will do anything to protect her sister. Heroism, and then some. There is also another, a drawing master named Walter Hartright, commissioned to teach Laura and Marian the fine art of watercolors. He falls in love with Laura, and she with him--before her marriage to Sir Percival. The drama should be obvious.

But what of the title? Who is the Woman in White? Her chance meeting with Walter Hartright on the road to London provides the catalyst upon which the entire narrative turns. She is at once and both the key and the puzzle. She is a victim. She is a harbinger. She scares Sir Percival out of his wits.

This book offers vivid portrayals of Victorian England, its mannerisms, its wardrobe, its inhibitions, its attitude. This book eerily reflects our own time, our own angst, in the 21st century. Once you read it, you'll know what I mean. Deception has no age.

P.S. Whatever you do, don't turn your back on Count Fosco!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Virtue versus Villainy, September 30, 2006

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This engaging mystery pits three idealistic young people in the traps of larcenous, black-hearted villians. A mysterious woman-in-white encournters Walter Hartright, a young drawing master on his way to a new commission in the country. From then on, it seems that their fate and lives are tangled together, this woman-in-white, and Walter and his pupils Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie. At first it seemed like a lighthearted curiosity, that Marian searches for in her mother's letters, just a childhood acquaintance. The first few months at Limmeridge, the Fairlie's mansion, Walter Hartright, Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie spend a happy companionable season as drawing master and pupils, with not a worry in their heads but the beautiful nature scenes, walks in the gardens and contemplation of the blue sky. That is, until Laura's impending marriage to Sir Percival Glyde draws a gloomy end to their idyllic days. From then on, the pace quickens as the woman-in-white first sends a letter of warning to Laura, and then later, lurks around attempting to deliver a Secret to Laura, only to be foiled by the maneuverings of an elderly corpulent Count who has allied himself with Sir Percival Glyde.

Laura becomes the victim, Walter the absent hero, and it is all up to Marian, the lion-hearted defender of her sister, who stands as protector, investigator, and emotional supporter to Laura, that is until tragic circumstances force their separation. Just when things seem the darkest, a surprising twist grabs the reader for a rousing finale that carries Walter incognito from Central America to London to Blackwater Park to Cumberland to Welmingham to an old church where the "Secret" of Sir Percival Glyde is revealed and wickedness is recompensed.

A guaranteed page-turner that will keep you up way past your bedtime. Everything is explained at the end, except for the reason that Laura's late father wanted her to marry Percival Glyde in the first place.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping plot, engaging characters, May 28, 2006

By	Michael B. Collins (Placentia, NL Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read this book in one day, a day where no classes were attended, no phone calls were taken, and no visits made. I cooked and ate my food with it in hand, and sometimes damned my inability to read faster, I was so eager to find out what was going to happen next.

"The Woman in White" is not just one of the most engaging and gripping Victorian novels I have ever read, it is one of the most engaging and gripping novels of all time. Collins creates vivid, memorable characters (ranging from brave intelligent Marian to the surprising and sinister Count Fosco) who are engaged in a plot that twists and turns like nothing else. There are so many unexpected, even shocking incidents, and Collins moves between them with exactingly precise yet graceful and beautiful prose. Not only that, his narrative style, which moves from character to character, allows for fantastic comic interludes which break up the drama (the chapter from the point of view of the hypochondriac uncle is gut-bustingly funny).

A couple of people I know, who are generally not fond of 19th century literature, loved this book. I have never met someone who has not been charmed by it. I strongly urge anyone and everyone to read it.

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