A child born out of wedlock, her anguished mother, and ancient family secrets comprise the plot of this Wilkie Collins thriller, a sterling example of Victorian "sensation fiction."
En el prólogo de esta novela, un hombre descubre, al cabo de los años, que su matrimonio no es válido legalmente, ocasión que aprovecha para repudiar a su mujer y casarse con otra. Trece años después, Anne Silvester, la hija de la mujer repudiada, será también víctima, como su madre, de una extrema peculiaridad legal... sólo que en este caso se trata de la terrible posibilidad de haber contraído matrimonio, sin saberlo, con el prometido de su mejor amiga. Y eso no es todo... Hay otro hombre en liza, al que Anne ha amado y por el cual ha sido deshonrada: el apuesto y cínico Geoffrey Delamayn, «un Hércules moderno» que «añade al instinto irracional del perro la astucia calculadora de un hombre». Bajo los designios de este villano, lo que empieza como una cáustica, y a menudo hilarante, comedia de equívocos se transforma paulatinamente en un horrible cuadro conyugal de traición, venganza, malos tratos, locura y asesinato. Marido y mujer (1870), inmediatamente posterior a La piedra lunar, pertenece al período de mayor creatividad de Wilkie Collins. Basada en circunstancias reales y centrada en torno a la Ley y a la brutalidad,encierra una atrevida denuncia de la institución del matrimonio, esa «ceremonia que dice, de hecho, ya que no con palabras: Dad el salto en la oscuridad. ¡Lo santificamos, pero no damos garantías!».
Walter Hartright's chance midnight encounter is to change his life, for when he takes up his duties as drawing teacher to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, he sees in her face an eerie reflection of t
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
Walter Hartright, a drawing instructor, comes to Limmeridge House to teach Laura and Marion Halcombe. He falls in love with Laura, but she is betrothed to someone else, and he must therefore leave Limmeridge. Before he goes, he tells Marian about his encounter with a beautiful woman dressed entirely in white, whom he later discovers escaped from an insane asylum. Here the mystery begins: Who is the woman in white? And is she truly insane?
The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller has excitement, suspense, romance, and a plot that twists and turns on every page.
One night on the road to London, a young drawing master, Walter Hartright, meets a mysterious woman dressed all in white and answers her pleas for help. But who is she and why is she being followed by two men? And what is her connection with his pupil Laura Fairlie, the woman he secretly loves? Wilkie Collins masterpiece of terrible secrets, concealed identities, abductions, fraud, cruel aristocrats and sinister foreigners is a mesmerising read and now also a powerful television drama starring Tara Fitzgerald and Simon Callow.
