The Woman in White. Buch + Audio-CD

An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, falls ill and dies in a decaying Venetian palazzo. An Italian servant disappears, and his wife receives a note containing one thousand pounds.<BR><BR>With the palazzo now transformed into a luxury hotel, and the late Lord Montbarry's family in residence, these strands begin to come together, yet strange and macabre events are occurring, and the dead seem unable to rest.

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins<BR><BR>'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'<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the great Victorian mystery novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.<BR><BR>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 - is one of them connected to the strange appearances of a young woman dressed all in white? And what does his charismatic friend, Count Fosco, with his pet white mice running in and out of his brightly coloured waistcoat, have to do with it all? 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...<BR><BR>This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant `Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White sets new standards of suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.'One of the earliest works of 'detective' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment. In 1859, the story caused a sensation with its readers, hooking their attention with the ghostly first scene where the mysterious 'Woman in White' Anne Catherick comes across Walter Hartright. Chilling, suspenseful and tense in mood, the novel remains as emotive for its readers today as when it was first published.

Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent. The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved.

Zwei Freunde, die beide den verhängnisvollen Namen Allan Armadale tragen, stehen unter dem Fluch ihrer Väter, Rivalen bis zum Mord. Die Szene ist Wildbad, das Jahr 1832, und die Stadthonoratioren warten in festlichem Aufzug auf die ersten Kurgäste der Saison. Unter ihnen befindet sich der reiche, sterbenskranke Plantagenbesitzer Allan Armadale, dessen einziger Wunsch es ist, noch vor seinem Tod einen Brief für seinen Sohn zu beenden, in dem er die verhängnisvolle Geschichte seiner Familie erzählt und vor dem Namensvetter warnt: "Lege Gebirge und Meere zwischen Dich und jenen anderen Armadale. Nie dürfen sich die beiden auf dieser Welt begegnen - nie, nie, nie!" Doch ehe der Inhalt des Briefes dem Sohn enthüllt wird, kreuzen sich die Wege der beiden Armadales, und die schöne Unbekannte mit dem roten Schal löst eine Kette mysteriöser Verwicklungen aus, in die die Namensvettern bald verstrickt sind. Wilkie Collins hat nicht nur eine spannende, glänzend konstruierte Handlung erfunden, der Roman fasziniert auch durch seine gekonnte Milieuschilderung und die meisterhafte Personendarstellung: der grüblerische, sensible Midwinter, der fröhliche, optimistische Allan, die Intrigantin Lydia, die hübsche, verliebte Majorstochter, die es auf unschuldig-raffinierte Art versteht, Allan den Kopf zu verdrehen. Aber auch die Nebenfiguren - der schrullige Major, die alte Gaunerin Mutter Oldershaw, die Jammerfigur des alten Bashwood, die gewitzten Anwälte Pedgift und Sohn, die Witwe Pentecost und ihr geistlicher Sohn Sammy - sind mit sicherer Hand ausgeführt. Viele Spannungs- und Gruseleffekte, Liebe und Verstrickungen durchziehen die Handlung bis zur Lösung des Rätsels. Der rote Schal erschien 1866, lange erwartet, sechs Jahre nach Die Frau in Weiß und wurde, ebenso wie jener, ein Erfolgsroman.

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