Wilkie Collins Woman in White

Collins, Wilkie: Die Frau in Weiss. Roman. Aus dem Englischen von Arno Schmidt. Originaltitel: The woman in white. Stuttgart: Henry Goverts Verlag, 1965.
Lesetipp des Bukinisten! Guter Zustand. - Dieser Bestseller von 1859 wird den Lesern von heute mindestens ebenso willkommen sein wie denen, die ihn von mehr als hundert Jahren gelesen haben. Denn die Geschichte der mysteriösen Erbschaftsaffäre Limmeridge ist spannend vom Anfang bis zur letzten Zeile. Wilkie Collins, der Autor dieses berühmten Romans, läßt die Personen der Handlung selbst das Verbrechen enthüllen, dem die "Frau in Weiß" zum Opfer fiel und das nun Laura, die junge Erbin von Limmeridge, bedroht. Wie es allen echten Bösewichtern ergeht, so werden auch Sir Percival Glydes Pläne zum Schluß vereitelt: eine dunkle Vergangenheit wird sein Verhängnis. Wilkie Collins war der Ansicht, die erste Aufgabe eines Romans sei es, eine Geschichte zu erzählen. Daran hat er sich in der "Frau in Weiß" ebenso gehalten wie in "Der rote Schal"- und damit die Zustimmung des Publikums und der gestrengen Kritik gefunden. "Es gibt wohl kaum einen Romanleser, welcher nicht Wilkie Collins manche in erregtester Spannung rasch verflossene Stunde verdankte", urteilte Ernst von Wolzogen in der ersten Monographie über unseren Autor. Arno Schmidt hat Wilkie Collins für den deutschen Sprachraum neuentdeckt. In seiner brillanten Übersetzung ist es ihm gelungen, den leicht altertümlichen Tonfall des Orginals im Deutschen zu erhalten - ein ganz besonderes Vergnügen. - - Wilkie Collins' Roman um die geheimnisvolle Frau in Weiß, der als der erste moderne Detektivroman der Weltliteratur gilt. Noch ermittelt kein Profi, aber der junge Zeichenlehrer Walter Hartright setzt seine scharfe Beobachtungsgabe, sein psychologisches Gespür und seine kombinatorischen Fähigkeiten ein, um die verbrecherischen Vorgänge aufklären und das Rätsel der weißen Dame lösen zu können. Mit Begeisterung haben sich seit 1860 unzählige Leser auf die Folter spannen lassen, denn durch eine raffinierte Verflechtung der Handlungsfäden lenkt der englische Schriftsteller Wilkie Collins den Leser immer wieder auf falsche Fährten. Wer dieses kriminalistische Meisterwerk noch nicht verschlungen hat, sollte nicht länger säumen. - - - 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.

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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Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White. London, UK: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1860
1/2 brown morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt tooled in compartments with raised bands and leather labels. Bound without half titles as often; new endpapers. The American and English editions were published on the same day, August 15, 1860. A cornerstone in the history of mystery fiction, and one of the great Victorian novels in any genre, "The Woman in White" established Collins's hold as "practically the first English novelist who dealt with the detection of crime" (Harvey, "The Oxford Companion", p. 233). Parrish, pp. 39-40; Sadleir, 605a; Wolff, 1377. Distinguished bookplates of H.M. Clifford. Old tape remnants in gutter pp. 192/193, volume I, otherwise Fine. ~~~ Author(s): Wilkie Collins; Binding material: Morocco leather; Binding state: Later binding; Binding style: Half; Class: Hardback copy; Condition: Fine; Edition: First; Jacket condition: Not applicable; Language: English; Pages: 1044; Publication year: 1860; Size: Octavo..

First, Hardback copy, Octavo, Fine

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Pate, Janet: The Great Villains - Peter Quint, Fu Manchu, Goldfinger, Count Dracula, Captain Hook, Bill Sikes, Moriarty, Bluto, Uriah Heep, Sweeney Todd, Mr Grimes, Hindley Earnshaw, The Joker, Injun Joe, Svengali, Simon Legree, Cruella De Vil, Cain, Napoleon the Pig, Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1975
ISBN: 0672521539 Near Fine

-----Black cloth with silver lettering on spine, 120 pages, filled with b & w illustrations and photos from movies, books, the stage, ink name on half-title page, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. Contents include: Intro / Alberich of The Rhinegold by Richard Wagner / Carver Doone of Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore / Bluebeard of Contes du Tamps Passe de ma Mere L'oir by Charles Perault / Bluto of Popeye by Elzie Crisler Segar / Napoleon the Pig of Animal Farm by George Owell / Moriarty of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle / Cain of the Bible / Godfrey Ablewhite of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins / Bill Sikes of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens / Captain Hook of Peter and Wendy by James Barrie / Chauvelin of Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orcczy / Count Dracula of Dracula by Bram Stoker / Dom Claude Frollo of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo / Cruella De Vil of The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith / Dorian Gray of The Picture of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wilde / Edward Hyde of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson / Goldfinger of Goldfinger by Ian Fleming / Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer / Carl Peterson of Bulldog Drummond by Sapper / Peter Quint of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James / The Marquis de St. Evremonde of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens / Injun Joe of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain / The Joker of Batman / Lady Macbeth of Macbeth by William Shakespeare / Long John Silver of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson / Hindley Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte / Brian de Bois Guilbert of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott / Mr Grimes of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley / Mrs Danvers of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier / Brer Fox of Uncle Remus by Noel Chandler Harris / Harry Flashman of Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes / Polyphemus the Cyclops of The Odyssey by Homer / Squire Thornhill of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith / Rupert of Hentzau of The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope / The Sheriff of Nottingham of The Legend of Robin Hood (Folklore) / Simon Legree of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe / Sir Percival Glyde of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins / Sweeney Todd of The String of Pearls by Thomas Preskett Prest / Svengali of Trilby by George du Maurier / Uriah Heep of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo First Edition 1st Printing NF Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

[SW: -----Black cloth with silver lettering on spine, 120 pages, filled with b & w illustrations and photos from movies, books, the stage, ink name on half-title page, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. Contents include: Intro / Alberich of The Rhinegold by Richard Wagner / Carver Doone of Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore / Bluebeard of Contes du Tamps Passe de ma Mere L'oir by Charles Perault / Bluto of Popeye by Elzie Crisler Segar / Napoleon the Pig of Animal Farm by George Owell / Moriarty of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle / Cain of the Bible / Godfrey Ablewhite of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins / Bill Sikes of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens / Captain Hook of Peter and Wendy by James Barrie / Chauvelin of Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orcczy / Count Dracula of Dracula by Bram Stoker / Dom Claude Frollo of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo / Cruella De Vil of The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith / Dorian Gray of The Picture of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wilde / Edward Hyde of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson / Goldfinger of Goldfinger by Ian Fleming / Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer / Carl Peterson of Bulldog Drummond by Sapper / Peter Quint of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James / The Marquis de St. Evremonde of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens / Injun Joe of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain / The Joker of Batman / Lady Macbeth of Macbeth by William Shakespeare / Long John Silver of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson / Hindley Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte / Brian de Bois Guilbert of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott / Mr Grimes of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley / Mrs Danvers of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier / Brer Fox of Uncle Remus by Noel Chandler Harris / Harry Flashman of Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes / Polyphemus the Cyclops of The Odyssey by Homer / Squire Thornhill of The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith / Rupert of Hentzau of The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope / The Sheriff of Nottingham of The Legend of Robin Hood (Folklore) / Simon Legree of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe / Sir Percival Glyde of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins / Sweeney Todd of The String of Pearls by Thomas Preskett Prest / Svengali of Trilby by George du Maurier / Uriah Heep of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Reference]

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Nathalie Abi-Ezzi: The Double in the Fiction of R.L. Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier, Lang, Peter Bern,Aug 2003 ISBN: 3906769682
Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier are authors of particular importance to the literature of the double, having produced, among other works, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Woman in White and Rebecca. Each also rejected the prevailing social order of his or her time, a factor that plays an important role in determining how the double is represented and treated. The literary theory of romance narrative structure follows the hero's journey through a dark 'descent' to a happier 'ascent', but this journey is shown to apply to a largely masculine identity. On the other hand, the rise of the female persona and her relation to the double is a progression that is clearly charted through the works of Stevenson, Collins and du Maurier. It shows an extraordinary alteration in the structure of traditional romance narrative, and leads to an exploration of new ways in which the imprisoned female character may be able to free herself and become whole.

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