Wilkie Collins

Broschiertes Buch

The Woman in White

Beschreibung

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.

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.

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 733230
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780099511243
• ISBN-10: 009951124X
• Artikelnr.: 22897366

Rezensionen

The most popular novel of the 19th century, and still one of the best plots in English literature. Notable for its marvellous villains and, like all Collins's work, for its complex, spirited and believable female characters Sarah Waters