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Title: The Woman in White
Author: Wilkie Collins
Published: Duke Classics, 2012 (1859)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 675
Total Page Count: 520,810
Text Number: 1895
Read Because: personal enjoyment, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library but of course it's on Gutenberg
Review: This is overlong, absolutely, and the epistolary format is to blame but it's also the book's great strength, as it roots a story of contrived schemes and mistaken identity firmly in the characters: what they know, which is often a step behind the reader's larger picture and trope awareness, a distance which is frustrating but abundant with gothic tension; what they record or omit, and for whom; what they feel and who they are. And they're remarkable characters, particularly Fosco and Marian (Marian, best beloved).
(For reasons obvious this made me need Marian/Walter and OT3 material quite badly; fortunately, many thanks to Yuletide and emily_in_the_glass, such already exists! Extracts from the diary of Marian Halcombe fills in some blanks with the sort of delicacy of what's recorded/to whom it's relayed that absolutely fits the novel, and Marian's voice is fantastic.)
Author: Wilkie Collins
Published: Duke Classics, 2012 (1859)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 675
Total Page Count: 520,810
Text Number: 1895
Read Because: personal enjoyment, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library but of course it's on Gutenberg
Review: This is overlong, absolutely, and the epistolary format is to blame but it's also the book's great strength, as it roots a story of contrived schemes and mistaken identity firmly in the characters: what they know, which is often a step behind the reader's larger picture and trope awareness, a distance which is frustrating but abundant with gothic tension; what they record or omit, and for whom; what they feel and who they are. And they're remarkable characters, particularly Fosco and Marian (Marian, best beloved).
(For reasons obvious this made me need Marian/Walter and OT3 material quite badly; fortunately, many thanks to Yuletide and emily_in_the_glass, such already exists! Extracts from the diary of Marian Halcombe fills in some blanks with the sort of delicacy of what's recorded/to whom it's relayed that absolutely fits the novel, and Marian's voice is fantastic.)
