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The Woman in White

The Woman in White

Collins, Wilkie

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 1720675740
ISBN13: 9781720675747
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 3 2018
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.64 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, encounters and gives directions to a mysterious and distressed woman dressed entirely in white, lost in London; he is later informed by policemen that she has escaped from an asylum. Soon afterward, he travels to Limmeridge House in Cumberland, having been hired as a drawing master on the recommendation of his friend, Pesca, an Italian language master. The Limmeridge household comprises the invalid Frederick Fairlie, and Walter's students: Laura Fairlie, Mr. Fairlie's niece, and Marian Halcombe, her devoted half-sister. Walter realises that Laura bears an astonishing resemblance to the woman in white, who is known to the household by the name of Anne Catherick: a mentally disabled child who formerly lived near Limmeridge, and was devoted to Laura's mother, who first dressed her in white.

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