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| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 595 |
| Release | : 2015-05-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8026837398 |
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. The story incorporates elements of the legendary origins of the Hope Diamond (or perhaps the Orloff Diamond). Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : E-Artnow |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2018-12-13 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788026891086 |
The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. The story incorporates elements of the legendary origins of the Hope Diamond (or perhaps the Orloff Diamond). Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2016-03-25 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781530725625 |
THE CLASSIC MYSTERY One of the first examples of the detective thriller novel. A priceless jewel, stolen from India and brought to England, is stolen. Franklin Blake's investigation brings to light a web of intrigue, theft and murder as he closes in on the most unlikely of thieves... Wilkie Collins' novel is now widely regarded as a classic, and one of the most influential crime novels ever written. It introduced many elements which have now become classic tropes of the mystery thriller genre.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 595 |
| Release | : 2015-05-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8026837614 |
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Moonstone (Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. The story incorporates elements of the legendary origins of the Hope Diamond (or perhaps the Orloff Diamond). Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2021-01-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
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 | : e-artnow |
| Total Pages | : 871 |
| Release | : 2017-08-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8027202302 |
"Armadale" is a mystery novel. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : Nelson Thornes |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 1999-04-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780174325536 |
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.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 1999-06-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780140434088 |
"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.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : Collins |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2017-12-28 |
| Genre | : Diamonds |
| ISBN | : 9780008166946 |
Exactly 150 years since its publication in 1868, this reissue of Collins' popular Detective Club edition of The Moonstone offers crime fiction fans the chance to read the book that is acclaimed as the very first detective novel in the English language. At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, unaware that it was plundered from a sacred Indian shrine fifty years earlier. When the jewel goes missing later that night, suspicions are raised and accusations fly in all directions. Sifting through divergent accounts of what happened, the indomitable Sergeant Cuff must find the Moonstone and the truth about its mysterious disappearance. Recognised as the very first detective novel in the English language, The Moonstone (1868) earned Wilkie Collins the reputation of the godfather of the classic English detective story, with Dorothy L. Sayers declaring, 'Nothing human is perfection, but The Moonstone comes about as near perfection as anything of the kind ever can.' For 150 years its intricate locked-room puzzle and multiple narrators have influenced generations of mystery authors. This Detective Club classic reproduces Collins' slightly abridged version of the novel, originally designed to make the long nineteenth-century text more accessible. It is introduced by the iconic crime writing duo G.D.H. and M. Cole, who analyse the popularity of Wilkie Collins' groundbreaking sensation novel.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : Alma Classics |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
| ISBN | : 9781847490094 |
Described by T.S. Eliot as "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels," Wilkie Collins's classic The Moonstone is also an important precursor of the modern mystery and suspense genres. When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of a crime and a thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voiced narrative that never flags in human interest. A huge hit when first published and ever since, The Moonstone keeps the reader guessing until the end, and together with The Woman in White places Collins among the greatest storytellers in the English language.
