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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Matthew Sweet is a journalist and critic, and wrote his doctoral thesis on Wilkie Collins.
"The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is a stay-up-all-night page-turner from 1859 that rivals any thriller written since: heavy on brooding gothic atmosphere, rife with plot twists, and featuring one of the great literary villains."
"The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins: uncanny, eerily sinister, packed with strange, vivid characters, a gorgeous gothic masterpiece."