{"product_id":"9781788280570","title":"The Woman in White","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'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'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Woman in White\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Wilkie Collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Mass Market size","offer_id":52316313321632,"sku":"9781788280570","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover Mass Market size","offer_id":52316313354400,"sku":"9780140430967","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback\/softback trade size","offer_id":52523575443616,"sku":"9781848378964","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Trade size Paperback","offer_id":53068287213728,"sku":"9780375759062","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/40116195.jpg?v=1693684891","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781788280570","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}