Wilkie Collins
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English
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'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' 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 becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming'...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003], 1875.
Language
English
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Valeria's first act once married is to sign her name in the register incorrectly. This is followed by the gradual disclosure of secrets about her husband's earlier life. Her discoveries prompt her to defy her husband's authority and lead into a labyrinthine maze of false clues and deception.
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