The Woman in White

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• sramsay · Jan 19, 2020 · Recommends

  …yes to Trollope, and I think there are a lot of nineteenth-century novelists who are like that (not quite as well known as the biggest names, but absolutely superb). Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone, The Woman in White) is another good example from that category.

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• iainmerrick · Jun 6, 2018 · Recommends

  Exactly! This is a discussion from the 19th century, if not earlier -- just read The Woman in White (or watch the recent excellent BBC adaptation).

• ghaff · Jul 30, 2020 · Recommends

  …pretty quick as long as the distance wasn't too great. But, in this case, you're right. I searched the text and it was indeed telegrams that were being sent. The Moonstone stands up pretty well. The Woman in White is pretty good too. I haven't read his other books although I'm told they fall off from those two.

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• ghaff · Dec 16, 2023 · Recommends

  …lacking as well; I vaguely remember not liking A Tale of Two Cities in high school. Bleak House is probably the one on my list. I did read and enjoy the two obvious Wilkie Collins novels (Moonstone and Woman in White) and have also seen the latter in what I think is an underrated musical. I've heard rather mixed things and haven't tried other works.

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• jihadjihad · Dec 2, 2021 · Mentions

  …Indemnity are also great explorations of the postwar noir genre. I'm sure there are essays about how it's all connected, and how it can probably be traced back to early mysteries like Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, but I haven't found anything yet that charts the history of the genre and explains the relative stability of its tropes and motifs over time.

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• Freak_NL · Dec 16, 2023 · Mentions

  Related to Dickens and Collins: anyone who's read works by Dickens (who hasn't) and Collins (usually The Moonstone or The Woman in White) and would enjoy a fictional exploration of their relationship in a somewhat darker, rather macabre setting with Wilkie Collins as an unreliable (opium addicted) narrator might consider reading Dan Simmons'…

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• Freak_NL · Feb 27, 2026 · Mentions

  …fan ought to have read, but I would like to recommend a lesser known title of Simmons for readers who have read at least some works of Charles Dickens (self-explanatory) and Wilkie Collins (such as The Woman in White or The Moonstone). Simmons wrote Drood (2009), which takes these two classical authors and places them in a mystery novel. What struck me as particularly masterful is that Simmons managed to write his…

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• shawndumas · Dec 21, 2010 · Mentions

  45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

• cubancigar11 · Oct 31, 2013 · Mentions

  …Shakespeare is still mandatory to learn in India, and novels that are today confined to humanities in Britain, are most read in India - they don't read catcher in the rye, they read The Tempest and The Woman in White etc. You can see that firsthand - Indians use idioms that long ago fell out of use in Britain. "Please do the needful" anyone? "I was doing that only"? This is not just about Indians. Germans, as I have…

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