The Woman in White

By Wilkie Collins

Subjects: Deception -- Fiction, Tromperie, English language, study and teaching, foreign speakers, Young women, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, England, fiction, Swindlers and swindling, Commitment and detention, Literature, Deception, FICTION / Classics, Fiction, general, Nobility -- Fiction, England, Patients des hôpitaux psychiatriques, English Detective and mystery stories, Mystery & detective, Successions et héritages, Country homes, Fiction, gothic, Hartright, walter (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, historical, Inheritance and succession -- Fiction, FICTION / Gothic, Mœurs et coutumes, Fiction and related items, Manners and customs, Fiction, suspense, general, Romans, nouvelles, Country homes -- Fiction, Mistaken identity, Nobility, Art teachers -- Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Mentally ill, England -- Fiction, English language, Maisons de campagne, Foreign speakers, Apparitions, Inheritance and succession, Study and teaching (Secondary), Art teachers, Fiction, mystery & detective, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Professeurs d'art, Social life and customs, Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction, Psychiatric hospital patients, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, romance, general, Teachers, fiction, English literature, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, Fraud, History, Fiction, psychological, Classic Literature, Readers (Secondary)

Description: The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into 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, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.