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    The Woman in White
    The Woman in White
    The Woman in White
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    The Woman in White

    Written by Wilkie Collins

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of ’sensation novels’….

    The Woman in White is also an early example of a particular type of Collins narrative in which several characters in turn take up the telling of the story. This creates a complex web in which readers are unsure which narrator can, and cannot, be trusted. Collins used this technique in his other novels, including The Moonstone. This technique was copied by other novelists, including Bram Stoker, author of Dracula (1897), although by the end of the 19th century the technique was considered “old-fashioned”. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Wilkie Collins

    Hijo del paisajista William Collins, nació en Londres en 1824. Fue aprendiz en una compañía de comercio de té, estudió Derecho, hizo sus pinitos como pintor y actor y, antes de conocer a Charles Dickens en 1851, había publicado ya una bio­grafía de su padre, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A. (1848), una novela histórica, Antonina (1850), y un libro de viajes, Rambles Beyond Railways (1851). Pero el encuentro con Dickens fue decisivo para la trayectoria literaria de ambos. Ba­sil (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. VI; Alba Minus núm. 10) inició en 1852 una serie de novelas «sensacionales», llenas de misterio y violencia pero siempre dentro de un entorno de cla­se media, que, con su técnica brillante y su compleja estruc­tu­ra, obtu­vie­ron enseguida una gran repercusión: La mujer de blanco (1860), Arma­da­le (1862; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. LXXXIV) o La Piedra Lunar (1868; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. L), que sentó las bases del moderno relato detectivesco, fueron tan aplaudidas como imitadas. En Sin nombre (1862; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XI; Alba Minus núm. 19) y Marido y mujer (1870; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XVI; Alba Minus núm. 6), las heroínas son mujeres dramáticamente condicionadas por una arbitraria situación legal. Otras novelas suyas son La pobre señorita Finch (1871-1872; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XXVI; Alba Minus núm. 6) y La hija de Jezabel (1880; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. CXL). Collins murió en Londres en 1889, sin haberse casado nunca pero cabeza de dos familias distintas y rigurosamente secretas.

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    • 4/5
      Art Teacher, Walter Hartright falls in love with his student, Laura Fairlie, who is affianced to an elder baron, Sir Percival Glyde. She is married to the baron, who sets about protecting his false identity and uses her for her fortune.

      Count Fosco, a friend of Sir Percival, and the baron set about a scheme to rid the baron of any witness to his falsehood and to capture the fortune of his wife.

      Hartright returns from abroad and tries to recover Laura's identity .

      I'm amazed at how little human nature has changed through the centuries. Well worth the read!

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    • 4/5
      It’s not a quick “read”, by any means, but it does give you an idea of the book lengths that were seen as acceptable in Mr. Collins’ day. The Count is an especially interesting character.
    • 5/5
      Very interesting book. Well written and read. I can`t help but wonder if this is a true story somehow.....sure made me think that way.
    • 5/5
      Long book! Great story! These have been a new style to me but I have really enjoyed them!