Book description
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, the story caused a sensation with its
readers, hooking their attention with the ghostly first scene where the
mysterious 'Woman in White' Anne Catherick comes across Walter
Hartright. Chilling, suspenseful and tense in mood, the novel remains as
emotive for its readers today as when it was first published.
