The Woman in White

29 hrs. 35 min.

Language Russian

Author Wilkie Collins

Narrator Evgeny Ternovsky

Description

Collins is rightfully considered the founder of the “sensation novel” genre, combining psychologism with an intense adventure plot, even with detective elements. And the novel “Woman in White,” with its dynamic and captivating plot, keeps the reader in constant tension. England, the end of the 19th century. Young artist Walter Hartright, on the recommendation of Professor Pesky, gets a position teaching drawing at Limmeridge in the estate of Frederick Fairley. One day, returning home, he encounters on a lonely road a strange woman dressed in white from head to toe… Walter helps the stranger catch a cab, and soon after her departure he meets two gentlemen asking about the “woman in white,” who, as it turns out, escaped from an asylum…