Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

Herausgegeben:Sweet, Matthew;Mitarbeit:Sweet, Matthew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, the 'Napoleon of crime', who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 71531
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780141439617
• ISBN-10: 0141439610
• Artikelnr.: 14111438

Autorenporträt

Wilkie Collins

Inhaltsangabe

A Chronology of Wilkie Collin's Life
vii
Introduction
xiii
Further Reading
xxxv
A Note on the Text
xxxviii
The Woman in White
Preface (1860)
3
(3)
Preface to the Present Edition (1861)
6
(622)
Appendix A: Theatrical Adaptations of The Woman in White
628
(17)
Appendix B: Wilkie Collins on the Composition of the Woman in White
645
(6)
Appendix C: The Serialization of the Woman in White in All the Year Round
651
(3)
Notes
654