The Woman in White

Informationen zum Autor Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824. His father was the landscape painter William Collins. After school he worked for a tea merchant before studying to become a lawyer. In 1848 he published a biography of his father and his first novel, Antonina , followed in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens who would later edit and publish some of his novels. Collins's novels were extremely popular in his own time as well as now. The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868) are his best known works. Collins was linked with two women (one of whom bore him three children) but he never married. He died on 23 September 1889. Klappentext Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot. Zusammenfassung Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot.

Product details

• Authors: Wilkie Collins
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.10.2007
• EAN: 9780099511243
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951124-3
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Gothic, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Classic fiction: general and literary