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Woman in White


This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins. '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'. "The Woman in White" 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, "The Woman in White" is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. "The Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Moonstone


Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem set to ruin everyone and everything she loves. Only Sergeant Cuff's famous detective skills offer any hope of peace and a future for them all. The intricate plot and modern technique of multiple narrators made Wilkie Collin's 1868 work a huge success in the Victorian sensation genre. With a reconstruction of the crime, red herrings and a 'locked-room' puzzle, The Moonstone was also a major precursor of the modern mystery novel. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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The Moonstone


‘The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.’ Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time, three Indian men, Brahmin guardians of the diamond are attempting to reclaim the stone in order to return it to their sacred Hindu Idol. Told from the perspective of 11different characters, Wilkie Collins’ tale of mystery and suspicion was considered the first modern English detective novel at its time of publication.
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Woman In White


HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.' One of the earliest works of 'detective' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859, the story caused a sensation with its readers, hooking their attention with the ghostly first scene where the mysterious 'Woman in White' Anne Catherick comes across Walter Hartright. Chilling, suspenseful and tense in mood, the novel remains as emotive for its readers today as when it was first published.
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The Woman in White - OBL 6


The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller by Wilkie Collins has excitement, suspense, romance, and a plot that twists and turns on every page.
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Žena v bílém


Román Žena v bílém vypráví napínavý tajemný příběh s detektivní zápletkou, vsazený do ponurých kulis viktoriánské Anglie. Vše se točí kolem neskutečné podobnosti záhadné dívky v bílých šatech Anny Catherickové a bohaté Laury Fairlieové. Příběh o sňatku pro peníze, oddané lásce, šílenství a špinavých intrikách sira Percivala Glydea a jeho „okouzlujícího“ přítele hraběte Foska, který má moc rád bílé myšky, šlehačkové dorty a jed, předkládá autor čtenáři prostřednictvím několika vypravěčů. Fiktivní deníkové zápisky a střídající se úhly pohledu spolu s děsivou atmosférou skrytou pod rouškou společenských konvencí vytvářejí neodolatelný celek. Žena v bílém je jedním z nejvýraznějších a nejoblíbenějších děl anglické literatury viktoriánského období. Autor v textu skvěle propojil prvky gotického hororu a psychologického románu.
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ELI - A - Young adult 3 - The Woman in White - readers + CD


The Woman in White is the first English 'sensation novel' full of mystery and dark secrets. After meeting a strange woman one night in London, Walter Hartright begins to realise that this mysterious woman is connected, in some way, to his new life at Limmeridge House and the woman he loves, Laura Fairlie. The story is told through different characters, and soon we find Walter, Marian and Laura caught up in a frightening world of crime, madness and mistaken identity. Count Fosco with Sir Percival Glyde, will do anything to get their hands on Laura's money and think up a terrible crime that could destroy her life forever.
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A fehér ruhás nő


Walter Hartright tehetséges festő lehetne, de szerény rajztanárként kénytelen tengetni életét. Rég megszokta, hogy érzelmeit a kabátjával együtt az előtérben hagyja, mikor előkelő családok kisasszonykáit tanítja a rajzolás alapjaira. A magára erőltetett fegyelem azonban csődöt mond, amikor elszegődik a cumberlandi Limmeridge House-ba két úrihölgy mellé. Az egyik, a szókimondó, tűzrőlpattant Marian akár az életét is adná imádott húgáért, a szép, gyöngéd, szelíd, merengő Lauráért, aki művészi hajlamait az akvarellfestészetben szeretné kamatoztatni. Megtörténik hát a baleset, kölcsönös szerelem szövődik Walter, és a rangban-vagyonban felette álló szép kisasszony között. Ám Laura jegyben jár. Választottja, Sir Percival Glyde látszólag maga a nagyúri kifinomultság és figyelem, a lány mégis megérez valamit abból, hogy e frigyből csak rossz származhat. Mivel azonban ekkoriban egy nőnek nemigen lehet önálló akarata, férjhez megy a baronethez. Ezzel aztán elszabadul a pokol. A szó szoros értelmében, mert az újdonsült férjnek ördögi segítője is akad, Fosca gróf, aki olasz titkos társaságok tagja. A két minden hájjal megkent gazember Laura örökségére pályázik, ehhez azonban el kell tenni őt láb alól. Vagy mégsem? Hátha egy hasonmás is megteszi helyette, a titokzatos fehér ruhás nő... Walter elszánt harcot folytat a két hétpróbás gazember ellen, hogy visszaadja szerelme személyazonosságát... A regény megjelenésekor elsöprő sikert aratott. Collinsnak, Dickens közeli barátjának a kisujjában van az írás mestersége, finoman megrajzolt hangulatai, természetleírásai tele vannak színekkel, fényekkel és árnyakkal, impresszionista vibrálással. A mesterien megszerkesztett történet letehetetlenül izgalmas, lidérces álmok, kákával benőtt, sötét tavak fokozzák rossz előérzetünket.
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OWC Poor Miss Finch


Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central character but also explores the idea of blindness and its implications. His sensitive presentation of the difficulties, disappointments, and occasional delights which follow the recovery of sight by someone blind since infancy is still one of the best accounts in fiction of a problem which continues to intrigue philosophers, psychologists, and the general public, as it has done since it was first discussed by Locke and Berkeley in the eighteenth century.
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OWC Basil


In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the nineteenth century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. Contemporary reviewers vehemently disapproved of this explicit treatment of adultery; and even today the passionate and lurid atmosphere he creates still has the power to disturb the reader.
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OWC Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, Guilty River


B'..melodrama is perennial and the craving for it is perennial and must be satisfied' T. S. Eliot ('Wilkie Collins and Dickens') Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here. All proceed through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that in one case at least is literally explosive. The fast-paced Miss or Mrs? (1871) opens on a yacht, features a remarkably unconventional heroine, and entails murder attempts, blackmail, clandestine marriage and commercial fraud. Dramatic and psychologically absorbing, the action of The Haunted Hotel (1878) takes place in an ancient Venetian palazzo converted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secreI. Lastly, set in a beautiful water-mill, The Guilty River (1886) depicts a group of alienated characters, whose relationships threaten to erupt in violence and murder. Varied in setting and tone, these stories demonstrate Collins's plot-making skill at its most succinct and intricate. *Introduction * Textual Note * Bibliography * Chronology * * Explanatory Notes *Appendix: Collins's prefaces.
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The Woman in White


There in the middle of the broad, bright high-road-there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven-stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments. Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall readers ever since. From the hero's foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collin's narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing. Collins other great mystery, The Moonstone, has been called the finest detective story ever written, but it was this work that so gripped the imagination of the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed: "Author of The Woman In White. . . "
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The Moonstone


The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder’s uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday present, but that same night it is stolen… The Moonstone is now seen as the first, and one of the best, English detective novels.
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