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Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

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Publisher Comments:

‘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.

Synopsis:

Combining a teasing plot with a vivid portrait of Victorian England, Collins makes his characters reveal themselves - and the solution to the mystery - by telling their own stories.

Synopsis:

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.

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ISBN:

9780140434088

Editor:

Kemp, Sandra

Introduction:

Kemp, Sandra

Author:

Stewart, Jim

Author:

Collins, Wilkie

Author:

Kemp, Sandra

Publisher:

Penguin Books

Location:

London

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

Police

Subject:

England

Subject:

Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural

Subject:

Mystery & Detective - Traditional British

Subject:

Traditional british

Subject:

Country homes

Subject:

Jewelry theft

Subject:

General Fiction

Subject:

Mystery fiction

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1999

Edition Description:

Revised

Series:

Penguin Classics

Series Volume:

97-1

Publication Date:

19990631

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

from 12

Language:

English

Pages:

528

Dimensions:

7.78x5.14x.95 in. .81 lbs.

Age Level:

from 18

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Product details 528 pages Penguin Books - 1999-06-01 English 9780140434088 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Gardners, Combining a teasing plot with a vivid portrait of Victorian England, Collins makes his characters reveal themselves - and the solution to the mystery - by telling their own stories.

"Synopsis" by Libri, 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.