The Woman in White (Audiobook)

from Smiler69

Walter Hartright, a young art teacher walking on the road from Hampstead to London, is startled when he is overtaken by a young woman dressed entirely in white. Visibly distressed, she begs him to show her the way to London, and he offers to take her there. The young woman accepts his offer on th...

from RidgewayGirl

This isn't a ghost story, but rather a tangled soap opera of greed and mistaken identity. The heroine of the novel isn't the mysterious woman in white, or even the hero's love interest, Laura Fairlie, but rather an independent and entirely appealing woman named Marian Halcombe. She's resourceful ...

from ncgraham

The Woman in White was my favorite read of 2010. (And it's high time I got around to writing a review of it!) I had a feeling I would like the book from just the preface. I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of a work of fiction should be to tell a story; and I hav...

from LiteraryFeline

"Oh! It's starting to get good," I exclaimed to my husband on more than one occasion as I read The Woman in White before bedtime. "Never mind," I would later add, having read the next paragraph. He was utterly surprised then when I commented how much I liked the book upon finishing it. He wanted ...

from atimco

The Woman in White, first published in 1859-1860, is right up there with The Moonstone as the best known of Wilkie Collins' works. Written from various characters' viewpoints in letters and diary entries, this novel is a brilliantly executed and suspenseful tale of hidden crimes, madness, money, ...