Name: The Moonstone von Wilkie Collins
SKU: 9781551112435
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The Moonstone Zusammenfassung

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins

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.

The Moonstone Bewertungen

"This superbly edited and richly documented edition of what T.S. Eliot described as 'the first and greatest of English detective novels' is the definitive and indispensible edition of The Moonstone." - William Baker, Northern Illinois University

"The Moonstone, one of Wilkie Collins's most popular and successful novels, has never been out of print since its first publication in 1868. Is another edition needed? The answer, in the case of Professor Farmer's scholarly and impeccably edited text, must be a resounding yes. Invaluable for his survey of past and present reactions to the story, and for his own insights, the edition also includes historical and background material and a well-chosen collection of relevant contemporary documents-always an important feature of Broadview Literary Texts. This Moonstone will surely prove another winner for Broadview's list." - Catherine Peters, author of The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins

"Steve Farmer's Broadview edition will undoubtedly become the definitive edition of The Moonstone. [It] deserves a five star rating." - The Wilkie Collins Society Journal

"Here is a book which anyone with an interest in either Collins or Victorian literature in general will want to buy. The chief reason for this is Broadview's exceptionally generous editorial policy in its series of Literary Texts, and the very good use that Steve Farmer has made of this generosity. In this edition, for a reasonable price, we are given not only a beautifully printed and error-free annotated text of the novel, but also a full introduction and over 150 pages of appendices. ... This is the first time that Collins' dramatic adaptation of the novel has been reprinted and this text alone is well worth the price of the book." - Adrian J. Pinnington, Waseda University, Wilkie Collins Society Journal

Über Wilkie Collins

Steve Farmer , of the English Department at Arizona State University, has also edited Wilkie Collin's Heart and Science for this series.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR003857927

ISBN 13

9781551112435

ISBN 10

1551112434

Titel

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins

Autor

Wilkie Collins

Serien

Broadview Editions

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Broadview Press Ltd

Datum

1999-03-30

Anzahl der Seiten

719

Preise

N/A

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