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The woman in white / Wilkie Collins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatric hospital patients--Fiction.
- Psychiatric hospital patients.
- Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Country homes--Fiction.
- Country homes.
- Art teachers--Fiction.
- Art teachers.
- Deception--Fiction.
- Deception.
- Nobility--Fiction.
- Nobility.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
- Psychological fiction.
- England--Fiction.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1144 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Auckland, New Zealand] : Floating Press, 1860.
- Summary:
- The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre. A young woman's husband defrauds her of her fortune, her identity and eventually her sanity. She is saved by her sister and a loyal man who loves her, and her two rescuers attempt to expose her husband. They meet a woman dressed all in white whose fate seems curiously intertwined with that of the young woman. In the tradition of the sensation novel...
- Contents:
- Title; Contents; The First Epoch; The Second Epoch; The Third Epoch; Endnotes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 07, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-77556-598-X
- OCLC:
- 436171464
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