|a Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 788229 KB). But who is the mysterious woman in white who he encounters? Naxos AudioBooks brings together a strong cast to bring alive the mystery and suspense of The Woman in White. Walter Hartright, a drawing teacher to two sisters, wants to marry Laura, though she is betrothed to another. |a Wilkie Collins is a master of suspense, but his transfer to audiobook requires a cast of readers to faithfully reflect the eleven different characters who tell the story. |a 1 online resource (23 audio files) : |b digital |a Franklin : |b Naxos AudioBooks, |c 2008. The Woman in White Audible Audiobook Unabridged Roger Rees (Narrator), Rosalyn Landor (Narrator), & 4 more 5,246 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0. The Woman in White audiobook (Abridged) By Nigel Anthony Format audiobook Edition Abridged ISBN 9780141804590 Author Nigel Anthony Narrator Nigel Anthony Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Release 05 April 2010 Subjects Classic Literature Fiction Romance Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Sign up for free with audible and get 2 Audible Originals and 1 audiobook. As in all great novels, the antagonists get what they deserve, and the characters who maintain their dignity are rewarded handsomely in the end.|a F66DF313-1675-4934-B209-FB942E2AF990 |b OverDrive, Inc. She is described as being a white woman who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and. Through a series of calculated moves that involve death and a large inheritance, the small community is rocked and shrouded in mystery at the hands of the conniving Sir Percival Glyde, who is interested only in making himself wealthy at the hands of others. But it is not until later on in the novel that he discovers the reason why. After Walter takes a job at what is known as Limmeridge House, he notices that one of his students - Laura - looks strikingly like the distressed woman he met, Anne. The people of the community know her very well. It is later made known to him that she is from an asylum, and that her name is Anne. Walter Hartright, an art teacher, crosses paths one day with a woman who appears to be distressed, and he notices immediately that she is clad in an all-white outfit. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of ’sensation novels’. Celebrated as one of the first popular mystery novels, The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, skillfully incorporates the twisting and turning of more than a few plot lines that all manage to converge beautifully at the end of the work. The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860.
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