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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780141804590 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0141804599 Label: Penguin Audiobooks Manufacturer: Penguin Audiobooks Number Of Items: 6 Number Of Pages: 6 Publication Date: February 27, 2003 Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Studio: Penguin Audiobooks Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Engaging and verbose... perfectAs an English professor who finds excellent vocabulary usage a thing of the past, this book provides the ultimate language high. The words, strung together like lights on a Christmas tree, give exuberance and thought to a novel that reads exquisitely. Reading many of the sentences over and over again to give myself the pleasures not often able to be achieved in this time period, I became lost in London, then at Blackwater Park, and everywhere in between. A true Anglophile and bibliophile's dream. ... Read More Rating: - The Woman at White is a Victorian Novel which will keep you up in the wee hours of the morning!Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was a good friend of Charles Dickens. Dickens asked him to contribute a serial to the journal "All the Year Round" of which he was the editor. This all occurred in 1859. The result is one of the first of the so-called "sensational novels" so fetching to middle class Victorian readers. The Woman in White takes gothic elements and entwines them into a mysterious web of intrigue set in a middle class typically English landscape of nineteenth century life. The ... Read More Rating:  - Madness, Mystery and the First Fat VillainThe first 100 pages are the hardest to get through, but once Collins ushers his readers and protagonist alike into the isolated gloom of Limmeridge House it becomes plain why this is one of the most celebrated mysteries ever written. The lead couple is rather bland, in particular the heroine, but that weakness is more than compensated for by the presence of such memorable characters as the clever, resourceful Marian Halcombe and the insidious Count Fosco. The tale of greed, murder, madness, revenge and ... Read More Rating: - Wonderful Read!I am so glad I read this book. What a treat! The names even fit the characters. It was a wonderful book and I now look forward to reading Moonstone. Rating: - Another gem from CollinsSimilar to Wilkie Collins other masterpiece, The Moonstone, various characters narrate sections of The Woman in White and the story is told as the characters look back on what has already happened. This method of building a mystery is fantastic because we, as readers, also become sleuths in the mystery that takes place. Collins ability to get into characters heads enhances the level of suspense, and gives it a sense that we are right there with them. In The Woman in White, Walter Hartright ... Read More 
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