Published in serial form in 1859–60, The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins’s masterpiece of sensation fiction — a brilliantly constructed thriller told through multiple narrators, in which a drawing teacher becomes entangled in a conspiracy involving mistaken identity, false imprisonment, and the brilliant villain Count Fosco. It was one of the first true thriller novels and an immediate bestseller.
Collins’s intricate plotting and his ability to create genuine suspense across a long Victorian narrative remain impressive today. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg for the complete, unabridged text of this genre-defining novel.