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sun surfer · 05-14-2019, 06:40 PM

"'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'

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 becomes embroiled in 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."

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This book is available in the MR Library!
Kindle prc download, uploaded by HarryT (thread)
ePub download, illustrated, uploaded by AlexBell (thread)

Anyone can discuss any part or aspect of it at any time, although a softly recommended discussion timeframe is given below.
-The first quarter within a week
-The second quarter within two weeks
-The third quarter within three weeks
-The fourth quarters within four weeks

This is the MR Literary Club selection for May 2019. Everyone is welcome so feel free to start or join in the conversation at any time; the more the merrier!

05-14-2019, 06:40 PM	#1
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44637926 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins "'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white' 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 becomes embroiled in 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." Goodreads This book is available in the MR Library! Kindle prc download, uploaded by HarryT (thread) ePub download, illustrated, uploaded by AlexBell (thread) Anyone can discuss any part or aspect of it at any time, although a softly recommended discussion timeframe is given below. -The first quarter within a week -The second quarter within two weeks -The third quarter within three weeks -The fourth quarters within four weeks This is the MR Literary Club selection for May 2019. Everyone is welcome so feel free to start or join in the conversation at any time; the more the merrier!