The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins, 1860
Wilkie Collins’s mystery novel, told by several narrators, which begins when Walter Hartright, a drawing master about to take up a post at a country house in Cumberland, meets a woman dressed all in white on a lonely road outside London at night.
Famous quotes
This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.
First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, IIn context- First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, IVIn context
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, IXIn context- Second Epoch, The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe, IIIIn context
I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.
Second Epoch, The Story Continued by Frederick Fairlie, Esq., of Limmeridge HouseIn context
Contents
First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright
First Epoch, The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore
First Epoch, The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe
Second Epoch, The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe
Second Epoch
Second Epoch, The Story Continued by Eliza Michelson
Second Epoch, The Story Continued in Several Narratives
- 1. The Narrative of Hester Pinhorn, Cook in the Service of Count Fosco
- 2. The Narrative of the Doctor
- 3. The Narrative of Jane Gould
- 4. The Narrative of the Tombstone
- 5. The Narrative of Walter Hartright