Collins Woman in White

Hüttner, Kirsten: Wilkie Collin's "The Woman in White". Analysis, Reception and Literary Criticism of a Victorian Bestseller. Studien zur anglistischen Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft, Band 7. Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1996. ISBN: 3884762273
Einband leicht berieben, sonst gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - The Woman in White published in 1860 by Wilkie Collins was on of the most successful books of 19th century England. This study examines the bestseller as an important piece of Victorian literature and reassesses its position as a "major novel" among the literary canon. Up to now there has not been an exclusive examination of the novel itself and its international reception to the extent presented in this study. One reason for much controversial discussion is the question of The Woman in White as a genre novel. It is assumed that part of the contradictory criticism and evaluation of the novel is due to its indistinct classification into a particular literary category. A survey of 135 years of mainstream and deviating opinions on the novel sheds new light on its respective evaluation. The subsequent study of German criticism is entirely new in Collins scholarship. An explanation is then given outlining why the book has remained a bestseller throughout the century in Russia, and has always been considered a Victorian classic even in the former Soviet Union. This study of fhe Woman in White and the reaction to it provides German and international scholarship with the arguments required to promote the novel to a more justified rank among Victorian literature. (Verlagstext). ISBN 3884762273 - , ISBN-13: 9783884762271

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Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone. Edited and introduced by J.I.M Stewart. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1980. ISBN: 0140430148
Lesetipp des Bukinisten! Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Guter Zustand. - Wilkie Collins English novelist, whose unconventional private life and determination to tackle social issues disconcerted his audience. Many of Wilkie Collins's novels contain sympathetic portraits of physically abnormal individuals. Critics often credit Collins with the invention of the English detective novel. While he was aware of the work of Poe and Gaboriau, he worked in the mainstream of Victorian domestic and social fiction. Sergeant Cuff from Collins's novel The Moonstone (1868) became a prototype of the detective hero in English fiction. Wilkie Collins was born in London. His father was William Collins, a well-known landscape painter, and mother Harriet (Geddes) Collins, the daughter of a painter. They were a devoted couple, and young Wilkie grew with his brother in a secure household. However, Collins never outgrew his childhood sickliness, he was small and had a slightly deformed skull. Collins was educated privately, he studied painting for several years. At the age of eleven he began attending school, but at the end of the year the family moved to Italy, where William Collins studied the old masters. After nearly two years abroad, the family returned to England. With the help of his father, Collins found work in the office of a tea importer (1841-46). During this period he started to write fiction. Collins' first story. "The Last Stagecoachman" was published in 1943. He studied then law without much enthusiasm and worked industriously on his first novel, Antonina; or, The Fall of Rome (1950), a historical story in the manner of Bulwer Lytton. At the age of 27 Collins became a lawyer. He never practiced law but put his legal knowledge to work in crime writing. His father died in 1847 and Collins set aside other literary aspirations to write his father's biography. It appeared in 1848. In 1851 Collins started his long friendship with Charles Dickens, while they were pursuing a mutual interest in amateur theatricals. Inspired by the success of Dickens's Christmas books, Collins produced Mr Wray's Cash-Box in 1852. He joined in 1856 the staff of Dickens's Household Worlds, and collaborated with him on pieces for the magazine. Dickens helped Collins bring humour and believable characters into his books. In 1858 Collins met Caroline Graves, a widow, who was his life companion until his death. Collins saw her first at a mysterious midnight encounter of which he made use in The Woman in White (1860). He also had relationship with Mrs Martha Rudd, whose three children Collins acknowledged as his own. By 1868 she lived in London as Collins's mistress, Caroline Graves lived with him as a "housekeeper." In 1868 Caroline married Joseph Clow, but returned to Collins within two years. Basil (1852) was Collins's first novel based on crime, mystery, and suspense. The enormously popular suspense thriller Woman in White appeared first in Dickens's periodical All the Year Round in 1859-60. Using a multivocal narrative, Collins imitated the presentation of testimony from a number of witnesses in a court case. The book tells the story of the evil Sir Percival Glyde's plot to steal his wife's inheritance with the help of a sinister Italian, Count Fosco. Walter Hartright goes to Limmeridge House in Cumberland as drawing master to Laura Fairlie and her half-sister Marian Halcombe. He sees Anne Catherick on the night she left an asylum to which she had been committed by Sir Percival. Anne knows a secret about his past - his illegitimacy. Sir Percival burns the parish registry and is killed in the resulting fire. Laura has been committed to an asylum as Anne, but Walter restores Laura to her true identity. In the 1860s Collins published No Name (1862), in which a young woman learns that she and her sister are illegitimite and penniless after the death of their father, but starts her countermove to regain her inheritance. Armadale (1866) was a story of fate, criminal fraud, and an attempted murder. In Moonstone, the first English detective novel, Collins created Sergeant Cuff, whose numerous traits would turn up in detective fiction for generations to come. In it Cuff interviews people at a country house to discover who stole a huge diamond that has a violent history. The plot includes also somnambulism and experiments with opium, Oriental magic, and three mysterious Hindus. The story unfolds through the words of its various characters. By making the criminal a member of the same class as the victim, Collins challenged the ideological fiction of a middle class bound together in commitment to a common moral code. During the 1860s Collins started to suffer severely from the rheumatic pains, and became addicted to laudanum, a form of opium, that was used perhaps more heavily by Thomas De Quincey or Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1873 Collins made a tour in the United States, where among others he met Mark Twain and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The death of Dickens in 1870 robbed Collins of a powerful mentor, and his popularity declined. Although suffering from spells of severe illness, Collins continued to write in his final years. In The New Magdalen (1873) Collins attacked the attitudes to fallen women, The Evil Genius (1886) dealt with adultery and divorce. Collins died from a stroke on 23 September 1889. Never yielding to Victorian conventions, Collins had insisted upon a simple funeral in his will. His last novel, Blind Will, appeared posthumously in 1890 and was finished by Walter Besant. Aus wikipedia , ISBN-13: 9780140430141

11. Auflage. 527 Seiten. 18 cm. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. ISBN: 3423009055.

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Collins, Wilkie: Die Frau in Weiss. Roman. Aus dem Englischen von Arno Schmidt. Originaltitel: The woman in white. Stuttgart: Henry Goverts Verlag, 1965.
Guter Zustand. - Aus wikipedia-Die_Frau_in_Wei%C3%9F: Die Frau in Weiß ist ein Roman von Wilkie Collins, der 1860 erschien. Das Buch gilt als das erste dem Genre des typischen englischen "Mystery Novel" zugehörige Werk. ... Im deutschsprachigen Raum wurde die Geschichte für das Fernsehen (WDR) verfilmt und als Dreiteiler 1971 in der ARD ausgestrahlt. Die Produktion wurde eine der erfolgreichsten Fernsehproduktionen des Jahres und lockte rund 9 Millionen Zuschauer vor die Bildschirme, weshalb man sie oft auch als Straßenfeger bezeichnet hat. - - Aus wikipedia-Wilkie_Collins: William Wilkie Collins (* 8. Januar 1824 in London; 23. September 1889 ebenda) war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Verfasser der ersten Mystery Thriller (siehe auch: Kriminalroman). Leben: Wilkie Collins wurde in London geboren. Sein Vater, William Collins, war ein Landschaftsmaler, der jedoch die Zukunft seines Sohnes zunächst nicht in der Kunst, sondern im Teehandel sah. Nachdem dieser wenig Neigung zum Geschäftlichen zeigte, studierte er Rechtswissenschaften am Lincoln's Inn, wo er 1851 die Zulassung als Anwalt erhielt. Wilkies jüngerer Bruder war der präraffaelitische Maler Charles Allston Collins. Seine eigentliche Berufung fand Wilkie Collins als Schriftsteller: Bereits 1843 war The Last Stagecoachman im Illuminated Magazine erschienen. Seine erste Buchveröffentlichung war eine Biografie seines Vaters (Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A.), die ein Jahr nach dessen Tod im Jahr 1847 erschien. Von da an veröffentlichte er in schneller Folge Romane (von denen er 25 verfasste) und Erzählungen (von denen über 50 erschienen): 1850 erschien Antonina oder Der Fall Roms (aus dem seinerzeit besonders beliebten Genre des historischen Romans), 1852 erschien Basil, und weiter fast in jährlichem Rhythmus weitere Werke. Er sollte zu einem der populärsten (und bestbezahlten) Autoren seiner Zeit werden. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind Die Frau in Weiß (The Woman in White, 1860) und Der Monddiamant (The Moonstone, 1868). Beide Romane würde man heute als Mystery Thriller oder im Fall von The Moonstone als Detective Novel bezeichnen, und man kann Wilkie Collins mit einigem Recht als einen der Begründer dieser Genres sehen. Das Spätwerk The Haunted Hotel (1878) stellt einen sich von der Masse durch seinen psychologischen Gehalt und die möglicherweise erste Darstellung von Hirntod in der englischsprachigen Literatur abhebenden Beitrag zur viktorianischen Novel of Sensation dar. Wilkie Collins gilt heute als einer der großen viktorianischen Schriftsteller. Er war ein enger Freund Charles Dickens', in dessen Schatten er nach seinem Tod lange stand. Dickens und Collins schrieben auch gemeinsam Texte. Der bekannteste Roman der beiden ist The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Erst im späteren 20. Jahrhundert wurde Collins wieder entdeckt und wird heute im englischen Sprachraum wieder verlegt. Wilkie Collins starb am 23. September 1889 im Alter von 65 Jahren in London und wurde dort auf dem Kensal Green Cemetery beerdigt.

4. Auflage. 850 Seiten. Schutzumschlag und Einbandentwurf: Roland Hänßel. 21 cm. Graues Leinen mit schwarzgeprägten Deckelinitalen, mit schwarzem Rückenschild, mit grauen Rückentiteln, mit illustrierten Vorsätzen und Schutzumschlag.

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Collins, Wilkie: Die Frau in Weiss : Roman. = The woman in white ,Band 1 u. Band 2 = dtv 500 , 501, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1968.
1. Aufl. 1986, gut erhalten, leicht gebraucht

[Aus d. Engl.] Dt. von Arno Schmidt Taschenbuch

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