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The Woman in White

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Wilkie Collins's 'The Woman in White' is a gripping thriller that intertwines melodrama, comedy, and realism. The story begins with Walter Hartright's fateful encounter with a mysterious woman dressed in white, who warns him of a dangerous man. As the plot unfolds through multiple narrators, secrets and suspense abound in this classic tale.

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1991

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Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
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“I am the sole guardian of my own fate.”

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