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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.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2008 |
Cornwall is steeped in poetry, legend and storytelling. Join Luke Thompson on a literary tour around its dramatic coastline, its cliffs and coves, across the moor and down the mines. Meet Cornish poets such as Jack Clemo and Charles Causley, enjoy retellings of thrilling legends and stirring songs and read inspiring fiction and non-fiction from famous Cornish writers and residents including Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Hardy, Winston Graham and D. H. Lawrence. What each and every one has in common...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Southey Robert, John Penwarne |
| Год | 2023 |
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Yellow Mask is a mystery novel. The secret of Wilkie Collins's success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plot skillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. The Yellow Mask is a complete mystery novel. The secret of Wilkie Collins's success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plot skillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel. Sister Rose is Set against the background of the French Revolution and concerns Louis Trudaine; his sister, Rose, who...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The secret of Wilkie Collins's success is the combination of various genres: the writer-master of intrigue and fascinating plotskillfully combines melodrama, detective and a manners novel in his books, generously flavoring them elements of the Gothic novel. The Yellow Mask - a complete mystery novel.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Woman...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Год | 2020 |
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Woman...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Only the Woman in White knows the truth of Laura Fairlie’s cruel husband. Can Walter Hartwright discover the terrible secret? From the moment Walter meets this mysterious woman, his future and that of Laura are linked forever.
Retold by Anne Collins.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Год | 2008 |
Wilkie Collins 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). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Коллинз Уильям Уилки |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2018 |
'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah Waters 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...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
A breathtaking classic of psychological suspense by the inventor of the detective novel, Wilkie Collins, with an afterword by writer, editor and playwright David Stuart Davies. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. On a moonlit London night, art teacher Walter Hartwright meets a young woman - beautiful, terrified...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins '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 is drawn into the sinister...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Collins W |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2012 |
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.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins, Collins W |
| Год | 2002 |
"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...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2009 |
The 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...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2003 |
On a moonlit night in north London, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white and feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. A sensation when it first appeared in 1860, this thriller exploits Victorian psychology as well as portraying the Victorian social scene.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Год | 2018 |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential 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,...
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая проза, Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежный детектив, Английский язык, Зарубежная образовательная литература |
Wilkie Collins 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). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Sister Rose is a part of After Dark.
| Автор | Wilkie Collins |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |