Name: The Woman in White: ( epistolary NOVEL ) By: Wilkie Collins (in English)
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781540692320

portada The Woman in White: ( epistolary NOVEL ) By: Wilkie Collins (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

English

Pages

406

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.80 kg.

ISBN13

9781540692320

Synopsis "The Woman in White: ( epistolary NOVEL ) By: Wilkie Collins (in English)"

The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter Hartright employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. The use of multiple narrators (including nearly all the principal characters) draws on Collins's legal training, [1][2] and as he points out in his Preamble: "the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness". In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer listed The Woman in White number 23 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", [3] and the novel was listed at number 77 on the BBC's survey The Big Read

Wilkie Collins

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(Londres 1824-1889) Dramaturgo, novelista y prolífico autor de relatos. A los 17 años comienza a trabajar en una empresa de comercio de té mientras escribe Ioláni, o Tahití tal como era (Gótica nº 32), obra que no vio la luz hasta más de un siglo después de su muerte. Estudió Derecho y, aunque nunca llegó a ejercer, sí utilizó los conocimientos jurídicos en muchas de sus obras, y la crítica le considera uno de los padres del género policiaco. En 1851, conoce a Charles Dickens, al que le unirá una profunda amistad y publicará en su semanario All the Year Around sus principales obras. Tras la muerte de Dickens en 1870, su popularidad decae. Padeció de gota reumática la que le acabó provocando una adicción al opio. El epitafio de su tumba le destaca como el autor de la novela La dama de blanco.

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