Download or read book Egad the Woman in White written by and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1975 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This laugh-oriented, old-fashioned melodrama is based on Wilkie Collins' classic, and it is wild, fast, and funny.
Download or read book The Woman in White Annotated written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events described in the novel take place in the 1850s in England. A young painter from London, Walter Hartright, secures a position as an art teacher at Limmeridge House in Cumberland, which belongs to Frederick Fairlie. On a hot summer night prior to his departure, Walter meets a very strange woman on the empty street, who is dressed in a completely white dress. The woman in white shows a sudden agitation when Walter explains about his new job, but also speaks with love about Mrs. Fairlie, the late owner of Limmeridge House. Walter helps the strange woman to catch a cab, only to encounter two men looking for a "woman in white," who has escaped from a mental asylum. Upon his arrival at Limmeridge, Walter meets those residing there: Marian Halcombe, a daughter of the late Mrs. Fairlie from her first marriage, her sister Laura Fairlie, and Laura's bachelor uncle, Frederick Fairlie. Walter tells Marian about the strange woman he met in London. Intrigued, Marian finds mention of a girl named Anne Catherick in her mother's letters. Mrs. Fairlie became attached to the little Anne because of her resemblance to Laura, and Anne in her turn became attached to Mrs. Fairlie. Meanwhile, Laura and Walter fall in love, but Walter is devastated to learn that Laura is already engaged to Sir Percival Glyde, the owner of Blackwater Park in Hampshire, a wealthy and respected person. The engagement was arranged at the request of Laura's father prior to his death, and she therefore considers herself bound to honor it, despite her love for Walter, and increasing sinister hints about Sir Percival, which suggest he had some connection to Anne Catherick, and may have been responsible for placing her in the asylum. Because of his grief and love for Laura, Walter leaves Limmeridge and departs for Central America. Sir Percival manages to provide explanations for everything concerning Anne, but shows suspicious behavior and also arranges for a marriage contract which benefits him economically and disadvantages Laura. Both Marian and Laura are increasingly upset by the prospect of the marriage, but it takes place anyways, and Laura and Sir Percival depart for their honeymoon in Italy. They are absent for six months, and then return to reside at Blackwater Park, where Marian joins them in order to live as a companion with Laura. The couple returns with Sir Percival's friend, the Italian Count Fosco, who is a sinister character, and his wife Eleanor, who is Laura's aunt, and who seems to be completely under his spell. It becomes clear that Sir Percival is an abusive and controlling husband, and also that he is in bad financial situation and desperate to gain access to his wife's money. Count Fosco seems to be Percival's advisor and helper, and the Countess is also willing to spy and intercept letters, so that Laura and Marian become increasingly isolated and helpless. Laura meets Anne, who tries to caution her and refers to a secret about Sir Percival, but once Sir Percival learns of this meeting, he becomes even more abusive and obsessive, convinced that Anne has told Laura a secret that he is desperate to hide. Marian is sure that Fosco and Percival are conspiring against Laura, and perhaps even threatening her life, but before she can do anything, she becomes seriously ill. With Marian incapacitated, Fosco and Percival launch their terrible plan: they trick Laura into believing Marian has left the house, thereby luring Laura to London where she thinks she is following her sister. According to the story as Fosco and Percival will tell it, Laura becomes suddenly ill and dies in London. At about the same time, Anne Catherick is apparently found and returned to the asylum. As Marian recovers, she is convinced there must be more to the story, and goes to the asylum to visit Anne. She is shocked to discover that the woman in the asylum is actually Laura, and helps her to escape.
Download or read book Neo Victorianism and Sensation Fiction written by Jessica Cox and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first full-length study of the relationship between neo-Victorianism and nineteenth-century sensation fiction. It examines the diverse and multiple legacies of Victorian popular fiction by authors such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, tracing their influence on a range of genres and works, including detective fiction, YA writing, Gothic literature, and stage and screen adaptations. In doing so, it forces a reappraisal of critical understandings of neo-Victorianism in terms of its origins and meanings, as well as offering an important critical intervention in popular fiction studies. The work traces the afterlife of Victorian sensation fiction, taking in the neo-Gothic writing of Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt, contemporary popular historical detective and YA fiction by authors including Elizabeth Peters and Philip Pullman, and the literary fiction of writers such as Joanne Harris and Charles Palliser. The work will appeal to scholars and students of Victorian fiction, neo-Victorianism, and popular culture alike.
Download or read book The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2017-09-18T22:59:38Z with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woman in White tells the story of Walter Hartright, a young and impoverished drawing teacher who falls in love with his aristocratic pupil, Laura Fairlie. He cannot hope to marry her, however, and she is married off against her will to a baronet, Sir Percival Glyde, who is seeking her fortune. The terms of her marriage settlement prevent Glyde accessing her money while she lives, so together with his deceptively charming and cunning friend, Count Fosco, they hatch an unscrupulous deception to do so nonetheless. In an early 19th Century version of “identity theft,” they contrive to fake Laura’s death and confine her to a mental asylum. Their plot is eventually uncovered and exposed by Hartright with the help of Laura’s resourceful half-sister, Marian Halcombe. The Woman in White was the most popular of Wilkie Collins’ novels in the genre then known as “sensation fiction.” It has never been out of print and is frequently included in lists of the best novels of all time. Published initially in serial form in 1859–60, it achieved an early and remarkable following, probably because of the strength of its characters, in particular the smooth and charming but utterly wicked villain Count Fosco, and the intelligent and steadfast Marian Halcombe opposed to him. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Blood on the Stage 1800 to 1900 written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1800 and 1900. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.
Download or read book The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins and published by Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House . This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?” During a trip to London, charming art teacher Walter Hartright encounters a seemingly distraught woman dressed starkly in white who asks him for directions, and the sheer bizarreness of the encounter sticks in his mind. He later meets a policeman who informs him that she was an inmate who had escaped from a local asylum. Soon after, when Hartright moves to a new teaching position in Cumberland, he meets a beautiful young woman named Laura and is staggered, as she bears a striking resemblance to the woman he saw in London. They fall for each other, but he remains puzzled – who really is Laura, and who is her mysterious doppelganger in white?
Download or read book Wilkie Collins written by Andrew Mangham and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eclectic collection brings together a range of critical voices, from varying disciplinary backgrounds, to comment on the life and works of Wilkie Collins. A close friend of Dickens, Collins engaged with some of the nineteenth century’s most influential ideas and cultural developments. As this collection makes clear, he formed interesting connections with key figures in literature, art, theatre, medicine, and the law. As a result, his works often engaged with the period’s most influential ideas and cultural developments. Best remembered for spearheading the Sensation genre with The Woman in White and detective fiction with The Moonstone, Collins’s career actually encompassed a large amount of material that has remained relatively neglected until recently. Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays offers readings of previously unstudied sources while offering new perspectives on the author’s most canonical works.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction written by Andrew Mangham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'sensational' style, including the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood and Florence Marryat. It contains fifteen specially-commissioned essays and includes a chronology and a guide to further reading. Accessible yet rigorous, this Companion questions what influenced the shape and texture of the sensation novel, and what its repercussions were both in the nineteenth century and up to the present day.
Download or read book The Nineteenth century Sensation Novel written by Lyn Pykett and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.
Download or read book The Women in White written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woman in White is an intricately plotted story, organised as a chain of 'witness' statements from a wide diversity of characters designed to unravel a cunning conspiracy against innocent women by a duo of memorable aristocratic monsters, Sir Percival Glyde and his devilish companion, the Italian Count Fosco. It is, ultimately, about a degenerate aristocrat after a middle-class woman's money that passes to him through their marriage if the woman is declared dead. He is a man prepared to plot actual murder to retain his hold on the cash and also to keep his own desperate secret secure. The intricacies of the plot, however, defy easy summary, each convolution and partial revelation driving the reader on to the next scene, and the next, disclosing the secret like a series of Russian dolls. It was said that the eminent politician William Gladstone once cancelled an evening appointment to finish a Collins novel. This is a common reader experience. Everything develops from one of the most famous scenes in Victorian literature: the late-night encounter of Walter Hartright with a mysterious lone woman, near Hampstead Heath, after midnight, 'a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments; her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand pointing to the dark cloud over London, as I faced her' (ch. 4). He is entirely unable to locate her in class terms - she is neither a lady nor of the humble ranks - and although unchaperoned 'at that suspiciously late hour' she is also clearly not a prostitute. This is the enigmatic Anne Catherick, escaped from an asylum, who initially only serves to further the plot by acting as an uncanny double for Hartright's beloved, Laura Fairlie, the main damsel in distress. Fairlie will be the target of Glyde and Fosco's cunning plot. That Anne Catherick's story is only unravelled in the margins of the central narrative somehow further guarantees her enigmatic hold on the imagination. She acts as a powerful cipher.
Download or read book The Woman in White written by Wilkie Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious appearance of a woman dressed in all white leads to the discovery of a complicated plot involving a stolen inheritance and an escape from a mental institution.
Download or read book Victorian Sensation Fiction written by Jessica Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or potentially dangerous qualities of the genre to the prolific critical attention of the present day, this Reader's Guide identifies the dominant approaches to sensation fiction and charts the critical trends of various scholarly evaluations and interpretations. With coverage spanning empire, class, sexuality and adaptation, this is the ideal companion for students of Victorian Literature looking for an introduction to the key debates surrounding sensation fiction.
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Download or read book The Woman in White written by Collins W. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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