by Susan Hill · Pearson Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582026605
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«The Woman in Black» is Susan Hill's gothic horror novel, published by Pearson Longman in paperback (164 pages, in English).
Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer, travels to the north of England for the funeral of his client Alice Drablow and discovers Eel Marsh House, a lonely house on a fog-bound marsh. The figure of a woman dressed in black, a secret the locals avoid naming, turns his stay into a nightmare that will mark his life.
It belongs to the New Longman Literature 14-18 collection, with an introduction by Susan Hill and study materials; it appears as book 1 of the Woman in Black series.
Intended for secondary school students preparing for the GCSE and for readers who want to read a ghost story in English with educational support.
Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for stage and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
