Роман У. Коллинза «Женщина в белом» по праву занимает одно из видных мест в ряду лучших образцов английской литературы ХIХ в.
Любовь и предрассудки, стяжательство и преступления – темы вечные, поэтому роман, написанный более 100 лет назад, и сейчас захватывает читателя напряженным сюжетом.
Текст произведения подготовлен для уровня 4 (т. е. для продолжающих учить английский язык верхней ступени Upper-Intermediate) и снабжен комментариями. В конце книги предлагается англо-русский словарик.
Издание предназначено для всех, кто стремится читать английскую литературу в оригинале.
Оглавление
Уилки Коллинз. The Woman in White / Женщина в белом
The First Epoch
The Story Begun by Walter Hartright[1] (of Clement’s Inn,[2] Teacher of Drawing)
The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore (of Chancery Lane,[47] Solicitor)
The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe (in Extracts from her Diary)
The Second Epoch
The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe
The Story Continued by Eliza Michelson[88] (Housekeeper at Blackwater Park)
The Story Continued in Several Narratives
The Narrative of Hester Pinhorn,[93] Cook in the Service of Count Fosco
The Narrative of the Tombstone
The Narrative of Walter Hartright
The Third Epoch
The Story Continued by Walter Hartright
The Story Continued by Mrs. Catherick
The Story Continued by Walter Hartright
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One day I received a letter. Frederick Fairlie, Esquire, of Limmeridge House, Cumberland,[3] wanted to hire a competent drawing-master, for a period of four months.
The master was to superintend the instruction of two young ladies in the art of painting in water-colours;[4] and he was to devote his leisure time, afterwards, to the business of repairing and mounting a valuable collection of drawings. Four guineas a week was the salary!
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“There can be no doubt,” Miss Halcombe continued, “that every peculiarity of his personal appearance is thoroughly well known to the writer of the letter.”
“Even a cough that he is troubled with is mentioned, if I remember right?”
