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The Moonstone Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone By Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins


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Summary

A fabulous diamond becomes Rachel Verinder's dangerous inheritance. Outside her house watch the Hindu priests who have waited many years to reclaim their looted talisman. When the Moonstone disappears, the case looks simple, but no-one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for granted.

The Moonstone Summary

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

'the first and greatest of English detective novels' T.S.Eliot A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for granted. Witnesses, suspects, and detectives take up the story in turn. The bemused butler, the love-stricken housemaid, the enigmatic detective Sergeant Cuff, the drug-addicted scientist, each speculate on the mystery as Collins weaves their narratives into a masterpiece of construction and suspense. But The Moonstone is more than just a detective novel or a murder mystery and this new edition features a fascinating introduction by John Sutherland which discusses the themes of Imperialism, Sensationalism and Mesmerism and the way in which they operate in the novel and within its cultural context.

About Wilkie Collins


John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London.

Additional information

GOR001760253
9780192833389
0192833383
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
1999-10-07
560
N/A
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