Book
The Woman in White
- Published
- 1859
- Genre
- Classics
- Pages
- 672
- Words
- 48266
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5890.The_Woman_in_White?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1100L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 15–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 10 onwards · ages 15–18
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
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.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780141439617
- ISBN-10
- 0141439610
Tags
EnglandFictionHorrorLondonMystery