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The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins · 1859 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

A young drawing master walking into London at midnight is stopped by a woman dressed entirely in white who has escaped confinement. He takes a teaching post at a Cumberland house and finds that one of his pupils, an heiress engaged to a baronet with debts, is the woman's double. The first great sensation novel, told by many hands.

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