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The Woman in White
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Published on 2011-07-14 by

One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White was a phenomenal bestseller in the 1860s, achieving even greater success than works by Dickens, Collins’s friend and mentor. Full of surprise, intrigue, and suspense, this vastly entertaining novel continues to enthrall readers today. The story begins with an eerie midnight encounter between artist Walter Hartright and a ghostly woman dressed all in white who seems desperate to share a dark secret. The next day Hartright, engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie and her half sister, tells his pupils about the strange events of the previous evening. Determined to learn all they can about the mysterious woman in white, the three soon find themselves drawn into a chilling vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. Masterfully constructed, The Woman in White is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction—Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant “Napoleon of Crime.”

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Don't you sort of hate how we've joined the decadent stage of Goodreads whereby probably fifty percent (or more) of the opinions written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now nude and unabashed in their variously efficient efforts at being arc, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you sort of pine (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the good ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were evenly plainspoke Do not you kind of loathe how we have entered the decadent phase of Goodreads wherein possibly fifty per cent (or more) of the evaluations written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now naked and unabashed in their variously powerful attempts at being arc, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you type of pine (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's happy druthers) for the good ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were consistently plainspoken, merely practical, unpretentious, and -- most importantly else -- dull, dull, boring? Do not you sort of loathe when persons say'do not you think in this way or feel like that'in an attempt to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically into agreeing using them? In what of ABBA: I do, I actually do, I do(, I really do, I do). Well, since the interwebs is really a earth by which the past stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the present (and with fetish porn), we can review yesteryear in its inviolable presentness any moment we wish. Or at the least till this website ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's overview of Macbeth in its entirety. I have bound it with a heavy string and dragged it here for the perusal. (Please recognize that several a sic are intended in the following reviews.) its really difficult and foolish! why cant we be reading like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that book is good! There you've it. Refreshingly, not just a evaluation published in one of the witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal scream unleashed to the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation having an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on the exact same play. You might'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'only at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which can be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you do not want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it had been meant to be read, then it would have been a novel, not really a play. Along with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None of us had read the play before. None folks wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. This compounded to produce me pretty much hate reading classics for something such as 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can actually fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the author and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to see plays is wrong, and if you require anyone, under duress, to see a play then you have sinned and will hell, in the event that you believe in hell. Or even, you're planning to the DMV. I'm also fed up with all you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists along with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age whenever we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to anticipate others tokowtow for your petty linguistic rules. Creative phrase is going to totally free per se irrespective of how you might try in order to shackle it. Which is a person's stick, Aubrey. Throughout my personal impression, your enjoy Macbeth seemed to be the particular worste peice at any time written by Shakespeare, and this says quite a lot thinking about also i examine their Romeo plus Juliet. Ontop regarding it truly is previously unbelievable storyline, naive characters in addition to absolutly discusting group of morals, Shakespeare honestly shows Lady Macbeth because real vilian inside play. Looking at she actually is mearly your style inside the back round along with Macbeth himself is usually truely enacting the ugly offenses, as well as tough as well as scams, I do not discover why it's extremely uncomplicated to believe that Macbeth would certainly be ready to complete good rather than evil but only if their better half were far more possitive. I do believe that it participate in is usually uterally unrealistic. However the examples below is undoubtedly this ne and also especially with basic e book reviewing. 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I love mom and her ineffective greedy from similes of which are unable to solution the particular bilious hate as part of your heart. That you are acquire, as well as We're yours. Figuratively communicating, with course. And today the following is my personal examine: Macbeth through William Shakespeare is a good literary function in the English expressions, plus anyone who disagrees is definitely an asshole including a dumbhead.