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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-04
The Moonstone Classic Book written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-04 with categories.
First published serially in 1868, Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone" is generally considered as the first full length detective novel in the English language. The novel concerns a large valuable diamond plundered from India by Colonel Herncastle during the Siege of Seringapatam. Herncastle, who has been shunned by his own family, decides to bequeath the diamond to his niece Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. At her birthday party, Rachel wears the Moonstone for all to see, later that night the diamond goes missing from her room and quickly an investigation ensues to discover the identity of the thief and recover the jewel. Suspicion quickly falls upon three Indian jugglers at the party who are actually disguised Hindu priests who have dedicated their lives to recovering the diamond which has great religious significance. Despite the efforts of Sergeant Cuff, a renowned detective, the night ends with the mystery unsolved. Described by G. K. Chesterton as "probably the best detective tale in the world", "The Moonstone" is one of Wilkie Collins's most popular works which influenced the development an entirely new genre of fiction. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 1999-03-09
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-09 with Fiction categories.
Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins’s classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s. Collins’s story revolves around a diamond stolen from a Hindu holy place. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again. As the story unravels through multiple eyewitness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuff—with a face “sharp as a hatchet”—looks for the culprit. One of Collins’s best-loved novels, with an exciting plot moved along by deftly-drawn characters and elegant pacing, The Moonstone was also turned into a play by Collins; the play appears as an appendix to this edition.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-30
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-30 with categories.
First published serially in 1868, Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone" is generally considered as the first full length detective novel in the English language. The novel concerns a large valuable diamond plundered from India by Colonel Herncastle during the Siege of Seringapatam. Herncastle, who has been shunned by his own family, decides to bequeath the diamond to his niece Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. At her birthday party, Rachel wears the Moonstone for all to see, later that night the diamond goes missing from her room and quickly an investigation ensues to discover the identity of the thief and recover the jewel. Suspicion quickly falls upon three Indian jugglers at the party who are actually disguised Hindu priests who have dedicated their lives to recovering the diamond which has great religious significance. Despite the efforts of Sergeant Cuff, a renowned detective, the night ends with the mystery unsolved. Described by G. K. Chesterton as "probably the best detective tale in the world", "The Moonstone" is one of Wilkie Collins's most popular works which influenced the development an entirely new genre of fiction. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1993
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-26
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The moonstone "The Moonstone is a page-turner", writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre-the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1999-06-01
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-01 with Fiction categories.
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels," The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. Sandra Kemp’s introduction examines The Moonstone as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins’s sources and autobiographical references.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-12
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868-05-09
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Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'Scotland Yard bungler' and the skilled, professional detective.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-13
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The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White, to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first English detective novel. Many of the standard ground rules for detective fiction can be found in this work, as well as examples of Collins' forward-thinking approach to the treatment of Indians and servants.
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Release Date : 1999-04
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by Nelson Thornes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04 with Drama categories.
This brilliant Victorian detective story has been skilfully adapted into a fast moving mystery. Exploring superstition, loyalty, fate, the intriguing mix of characters and the deadly Moonstone, the play retains all the excitement of Wilkie Collins' original.