by Wilkie Collins · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099511243
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«The Woman in White» is the mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (624 pages, in English).
Walter Hartright, a drawing teacher, encounters an enigmatic woman dressed in white and then tutors the sisters Laura and Marian. Laura's marriage to the mysterious Sir Percival Glyde unleashes a plot of stolen identities; Marian and Walter investigate to protect her.
Originally written in English, the novel was first published in 1859 and is set in Victorian England.
For readers of Victorian classics and fans of gothic suspense set in the nineteenth century.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
