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The Moonstone
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The Moonstone
A priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again.
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The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again.
No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff and Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand.
T. S. Eliot famously described The Moonstone as 'the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels', but, as Sandra Kemp discusses in her introduction, it offers many other facets, which reveal Collins's sensibilities as untypical of his era.
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The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is renowned as a seminal work in the detective novel genre, praised for its intricate plot and strong characterisation. T. S. Eliot hailed it as the first and greatest English detective novel, highlighting its significant impact in shaping the genre.
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ISBN: 9780140434088
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 November 1998
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Sandra Kemp
- Notes by Sandra Kemp
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 362g
Pages: 528
About the Author
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
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