‘The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature’ Sarah WatersThe original ‘sensation novel’, The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright’s eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman 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 corridors of English country mansions and the madhouse, this is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet

About the AuthorWilliam Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.Reviews“Collins was a master craftsman, whom many modern mystery-mongers might imitate to their profit.” –Dorothy L. SayersAwardsRunner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780141439617Author Wilkie CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 30mm