![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She bids farewell to her family and friends but gets off at the next station. Julie, a grief-stricken woman, announces she is leaving the city and buys a random train ticket. The structure of the novel, Woolrich's first as a 'pulp' writer, is discussed by Eddie Duggan in his article "Writing in the Darkness: The World of Cornell Woolrich Plot The novel opens with a quote from Guy de Maupassant's short story " Le Horla" (in English as "The Diary of a Madman"): "For to kill is the great law set by nature in the heart of existence! There is nothing more beautiful and honorable than killing!" In 1968, The Bride Wore Black was adapted into a film of the same name by the French director François Truffaut. Although it was Woolrich's seventh published novel, it was the first in the noir/pulp style for which he would become known, his previous novels having been Jazz Age fiction about the wealthy and privileged. The Bride Wore Black is a 1940 American novel written by Cornell Woolrich, initially published under the pseudonym William Irish. ![]()
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