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Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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THE MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collin (Beyonds Classics) ‘The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.’ THE MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collin (Beyonds Classics) Centered around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic inquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time, three Indian men, Brahmin guardians of the diamond are attempting to reclaim the stone in order to return it to their sacred Hindu Idol. THE MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collin (Beyonds Classics) Told from the perspective of 11different characters, Wilkie Collins’ tale of mystery and suspicion was considered the first modern English detective novel at its time of publication. THE MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collin (Beyonds Classics) "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. THE MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collin (Beyonds Classics) The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner. First serialized in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, this classic work introduced one of the world's most beloved genres, the detective story. THE MOONSTONE by Wilkie Collin (Beyonds Classics)
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1999-03-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781551112435 |
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.
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-08-27 |
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"Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it."Only yesterday, I opened my ROBINSON CRUSOE at that place. Only this morning (May twenty-first, Eighteen hundred and fifty), came my lady's nephew, Mr. Franklin Blake, and held a short conversation with me, as follows:--"Betteredge," says Mr. Franklin, "I have been to the lawyer's about some family matters; and, among other things, we have been talking of the loss of the Indian Diamond, in my aunt's house in Yorkshire, two years since. Mr. Bruff thinks as I think, that the whole story ought, in the interests of truth, to be placed on record in writing--and the sooner the better."
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Everyman |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse.
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2017-09-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976336669 |
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.
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781853260445 |
The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder.
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781548779269 |
This classic book is always read again and again."What is the classic book?""Why is the classic book?"READ READ READ.. then you'll know it's so cool.
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-09-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781977794734 |
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.
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Fractal Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2018-08-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781787248380 |
The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 1907 |
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