The Woman in White
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- ISBN:9781857150186
- Год:2022
«I had a better income, a better house over my head, better carpets on my floors, than half the women who turned up the whites of their eyes at the sight of me. The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.»
Wilkie Collins’ novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860 when everything from dances to dresses was named after the ‘woman in white’. Its continuing power to fascinate stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama, comedy and realism; and in part from the power of its story. Yet The Woman in White is more than just a classic thriller, and contemporary critics have found in it a feminist parable for our times. Обо всём этом и не только в книге The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
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4«The Woman in White» Wilkie Collins
Помнится, в подростковые годы я впечатлилась "Лунным камнем" Уилки Коллинза. Мне понравились и сюжет, и подача, да и книга была прочитана довольно легко. Также меня особенно впечатлило то, что события освещались несколькими героями по очереди. В более зрелом... Читать далее
«I had a better income, a better house over my head, better carpets on my floors, than half the women who turned up the whites of their eyes at the sight of me. The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.»