Overview
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest
`Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter
with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison,
kidnapping, and international intrigue.
The novel is dominated
by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion
Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco,
the sinister and flamboyant `Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of
intricate construction, The Woman in White sets new standards
of suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those
of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor.
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