Reviews for The Woman in White
Review - Woman in White, The
An interesting plot but unnecessarily complicated and silly. Collins never fails to take four sentences to say what could easily be said in one.
Reviewed by Roger on 2003-07-20 13:47:37
The Woman in Whiteby Wilkie Collins | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Mystery" |
| Pages: | 589 |
| Year of Publication: | 1860 |
| Date Read: | 05/08/1997 |
| Notes: | Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared. From the hero’s foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collins’ narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction. COMMENTS — This book was so popular in the 1880s, that Wilkie Collins had his tombstone inscribed, “Author of THE WOMAN IN WHITE …” |
| My Rating: | 7 |