Read The Woman in White in Englishwith every sentence explained

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins was first published in 1860. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked advanced and filed under mystery and crime, romance and thriller and suspense.

A hand on his shoulder on a moonlit road, and a woman dressed all in white.

Walking back to London on the night before he leaves for a new post, drawing master Walter Hartright is stopped on a lonely road by a frightened young woman, dressed from head to foot in white, who asks him the way. Minutes after he lets her go, a carriage pulls up and a man tells a policeman that she has escaped from his asylum.

At Limmeridge House in Cumberland, Walter’s new pupils are the gentle Laura Fairlie and her clever, fiercely loyal half-sister Marian Halcombe. He falls in love with Laura, but she is promised to Sir Percival Glyde, and her face carries a strange resemblance to the woman in white. As the wedding draws near, an anonymous letter arrives.

Told by one witness after another, as if evidence were being laid before a court, Wilkie Collins’s 1860 bestseller defined the Victorian “sensation novel” and gave fiction one of its great villains, Count Fosco.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate English book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.