The Lady Vanishes & the Spiral Staircase (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Ethel Lina White

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840225769 ISBN 13: 9781840225761

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 2015

Synopsis

This novel, when originally published in 1936, was entitled The Wheel Spins. However, since the Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation in 1938, the novel has become better known by its 'Hollywood name' The Lady Vanishes. The novel tells of a beautiful English tourist travelling by train in Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist, and the two proceed to search the train for clues to the old woman's disappearance. This edition also includes the novel originally published as Some Must Watch, now better known as The Spiral Staircase from the subsequent film adaptations.

About this title

About the Author:

Keith Carabine, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Kent at Canterbury, and Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), is the author of The Life and Art: A Study of Conrad's 'Under Western Eyes' (1996) and the literary editor of Wordsworth Classics. He has also written on Sherwood Anderson, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Wright Morris and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1840225769
• ISBN 13: 9781840225761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Keith Carabine