The Woman in White-白衣女人

作者：Wilkie Collins

书名：The Woman in White《白衣女人》

中文简介：《白衣女人》是威尔基·柯林斯于1859年出版的第五部小说。它被认为是最早的神秘小说之一，并被广泛认为是第一（也是最好）的类型的感觉小说。这个故事有时被认为是早期侦探小说的一个例子，主人公沃尔特·哈特赖特运用了后来私家侦探的许多侦查技术。

英文简介：There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.”

Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall readers ever since. From the hero’s foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collins’s narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing. 

Collins’s other great mystery, The Moonstone, has been called the finest detective story ever written, but it was this work that so gripped the imagination of the world that Wilkie Collins had his own tombstone inscribed: “Author of The Woman in White.”