The Woman in White
Artikel konnten nicht hinzugefügt werden
Der Titel konnte nicht zum Warenkorb hinzugefügt werden.
Der Titel konnte nicht zum Merkzettel hinzugefügt werden.
„Von Wunschzettel entfernen“ fehlgeschlagen.
„Podcast folgen“ fehlgeschlagen
„Podcast nicht mehr folgen“ fehlgeschlagen
The Woman in White
Für 29,95 € kaufen
-
Gesprochen von:
-
Ian Holm
-
Von:
-
Wilkie Collins
Über diesen Titel
Exclusively from Audible
Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers and determines to solve the mystery of her distress and terror.
Inspired by an actual criminal case, this gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness and mistaken identity has never been out of print since its publication and brought Collins great fame and success. Considered to be among the first mystery novels and the first and finest in the genre of 'sensation novels', The Woman in White is noted for its suspenseful plot and unique characterisation.
Collins's use of multiple narrators drew on his legal training and he states 'the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness'.
In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer ranked The Woman in White number 23 in the top 100 greatest novels of all time. The novel was also listed at number 77 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
Charles Dickens was a close friend and mentor of Collins, and the two collaborated together on drama and fiction. The Woman in White, as well as some of his other work, was first published in Dickens' journals.
Narrator Biography
Sir Ian Holm, is a star of the Royal Shakespeare Company, who has played more than 100 roles in films and on television, whilst receiving a stream of awards and nominations. His television debut came as Richard III on the BBC's filmed theatrical production The Wars of the Roses (1965). One of his best-known roles is Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). He has also starred in The Fifth Element (1997), From Hell (2001), The Aviator (2004) and as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. He has provided voice-overs for many television documentaries including 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth (2009), starred in the BBC's The Lord of the Rings radio dramatisations and narrated many audiobooks. In 1989 he was appointed CBE and in 1998 was knighted for his services to drama.
Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Diese Titel könnten dich auch interessieren
what an amazing story!
Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Bitte versuche es in ein paar Minuten noch einmal.
The book itself was a good and entertaining one, I recommend it.
It's got elements of mystery, detective story, thriller and love story. There's a fair bit of humour and exaggerated characters, of course a lot of plot twists and turns and not too much sentimentality, a really nice combination. The plot moves at a really good pace for a 19th century novel, even though it is overall a tiny bit too long and overstuffed. Not as dragged out as his other famous novel, the Moonstone, though.
Later on there's plenty of law stuff which I found a bit too much, but it's important for the story, so it's allowed ;).
While I enjoyed the exciting journey the book took me on, I was rather disappointed with how the author handles his (numerous and important) female characters.
He is 100% sympathetic with them, puts them very much in the center of his story, but they are not allowed to do much on their own, even if they have a mind of their own. They are most of them passive and stick to propriety in such a slavish way that it's easy for men to misuse them. Notable exception is the Woman in White who is active and drives the plot in the beginning, but who's also depicted as mentally not normal and (spoiler) does not get a happy end. There's also a genuinely cool roof climbing scene of Marianne's, but for which she then annoyingly gets severely punished by the author in return. Later on, she gets to do a bit more, but the author also bars her inside a house for the last third of the book. And Laura, who is the main interest of almost all people in this story, is a complete non-character, never does anything on her own, never opens her mouth and has to live through a ton of bad experiences from which she gets severely traumatized. Bah.
I'm probably expecting too much from a 19th century novel written by a man, even if he considered himself a bit of a social justice warrior. But even women back then must have noticed these discrepancies, since Mary Elizabeth Braddon wrote her fabulous novel Lady Audley's Secret as a more female-friendly answer to The Woman in White. Definitely read that one for an extremely capable anti-heroine and equally exciting and well-written sensation novel entertainment.
Another point of annoyance for me was the constant suspicion towards "foreigners" in this book. I'm used to English literature of that time being rather nationalist though, and at least the one "evil" Italian is countered with a "nice" one as well (even though both of them are supposed to be read as rather ridiculous).
That being said, there are quite a number of progressive thoughts and social criticism of the time in this book, so I really can't be too annoyed with Wilkie Collins. Listen to The Woman in White if you like 19th century lit and aren't afraid of long books, it's one of the good ones.
Fabulous narrator, good story, a few annoying bits
Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Bitte versuche es in ein paar Minuten noch einmal.
A Mystery Classic
Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Bitte versuche es in ein paar Minuten noch einmal.