The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins, David Stuart Davies

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781848704060
• Year: 2011

With an Introduction and Notes by Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire.

Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress.

The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and the enigmatic woman herself.

Table of contents

• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• INTRODUCTION
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• PREFACE TO THE 1860 EDITION
• PREFACE TO THE 1861 EDITION
• PREAMBLE
• THE FIRST EPOCH
• The Story Begun by Sir Walter Hartright
• The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore
• The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe
• THE SECOND EPOCH
• The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe
• The Story Continued by Frederick Fairlie Esq. of Limmeridge House
• The Story Continued by Eliza Michelson
• The Story Continues in Several Narratives
• THE THIRD EPOCH
• The Story Continued by Walter Hartwright
• The Story Continued by Mrs Catherick
• The Story Continued by Walter Hartright
• The Story Continued by Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco
• The Story Concluded by Walter Hartright
• NOTES