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laurieb755 's review for:
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
I read this quite awhile ago and added it to my bookshelf another awhile after reading it (or so I seem to recall!) At any rate, this was once described to me, by a professor of Victorian literature, as the best illustrative book of Victorian literature ever written, and Wilkie Collins as the master of that period's writing. With that as a referral, I went on to read just about every Wilkie Collins book ever written!
This book was the first, and set the bar high. The mystery, the descriptions, the pacing, all combined to pull me in to a world that I could not (and did not want to) escape from until I had finished the book and taken a breather from the world Collins recreated from the world around him. Many of his other novels and short stories are equally absorbing. Though I have not written (and probably will not write) reviews of them, they are all entered on my Goodreads shelf.
If you are looking for an excellent Victorian novel to read, especially a mystery!, carve out some time and sit down with Wilkie Collins and his Woman in White.
Another aspect that endears this book to me is I went on a search for the book and wound up purchasing an old copy at a used bookstore on Cape Cod. My copy also contains The Moonstone and was published in 1937. The book is still on my home shelf, along with my other copies of Collins' books, though all the others were purchased online and the physical copies do not have the same mystery to them as my copy of The Woman in White. (Who owned it prior to me? What travels was it privy to? If only books could tell the tales of their existence…)
This book was the first, and set the bar high. The mystery, the descriptions, the pacing, all combined to pull me in to a world that I could not (and did not want to) escape from until I had finished the book and taken a breather from the world Collins recreated from the world around him. Many of his other novels and short stories are equally absorbing. Though I have not written (and probably will not write) reviews of them, they are all entered on my Goodreads shelf.
If you are looking for an excellent Victorian novel to read, especially a mystery!, carve out some time and sit down with Wilkie Collins and his Woman in White.
Another aspect that endears this book to me is I went on a search for the book and wound up purchasing an old copy at a used bookstore on Cape Cod. My copy also contains The Moonstone and was published in 1937. The book is still on my home shelf, along with my other copies of Collins' books, though all the others were purchased online and the physical copies do not have the same mystery to them as my copy of The Woman in White. (Who owned it prior to me? What travels was it privy to? If only books could tell the tales of their existence…)