Reddit reviews The Woman in White (Bantam Classics)

https://www.amazon.com/Woman-White-Bantam-Classics/dp/055321263X#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1497815460776

Soooooo... This is this lil' tot's favorite book?

I mean I want to believe and all...

>“There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.”

>Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in white in what soon became one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860, and it has continued to enthrall readers ever since. From the hero’s foreboding before his arrival at Limmeridge House to the nefarious plot concerning the beautiful Laura, the breathtaking tension of Collins’s narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing.

Also: I believe the woman in question is not a princess, but a woman in an asylum? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

SOURCE: my girlfriend reads books, not Reddit

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

Armadale by Wilkie Collins.

If you know Collins at all, it's from either The Moonstone or Woman in White, both of which are great sensation novels. Collins loves to play with the possibility of the supernatural, and in each of these more famous novels, potentially supernatural elements eventually give way to logical (but still super-creepy!) explanations.

Armadale is different. Collins fully indulges his taste for the totally bizarre, with terrifying dramatic dreams that predict the future, several generations of a curse, and due to a mix-up and some mistaken/stole identity issues, there are four -- count 'em, four! -- characters named Allan Armadale. (One of them goes by Ozias Midwinter throughout most of the novel, which is also a pretty sweet name). There's plenty of opium, evil doctors, love plots, shipwrecks, crazy ladies who stalk around in the bushes... oh man. Crazy novel. Pretty entertaining.

P.S. Wilkie Collins was awesome! He did so much opium that he had a persistent hallucination he was being followed by his own doppelganger, who he named Ghost Wilkie.