The Woman in White
First published 1859 · English · 440 pages
- Novels
- Mystery and crime
A famous sensation novel of the 1850s. Walter Hartright, a young drawing master, meets a mysterious woman dressed all in white on a moonlit road at night. He soon takes a post at a country house, where he falls in love with his pupil, Laura Fairlie, who is promised in marriage to another man. Secrets, false identities and dark schemes gather around the household. Told through the written accounts of several witnesses, the book is admired for its suspense and its memorable characters, including the clever Marian Halcombe and the charming Count Fosco.
Quotes
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.
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.