The Moonstone (World Digital Library Edition) (PDF)
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The moonstone, an enormous yellow diamond of unearthly beauty and value, stolen from a Hindu idol, is given to Rachael Verinder as an eighteenth birthday present and, on that same night is then stolen again. Miss Verinder believes that her lover, Franklin...
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The moonstone, an enormous yellow diamond of unearthly beauty and value, stolen from a Hindu idol, is given to Rachael Verinder as an eighteenth birthday present and, on that same night is then stolen again. Miss Verinder believes that her lover, Franklin Blake, is the thief; but there are other suspects including Godfrey Ablewhite, Blake’s rival for Miss Verinder, and three mysterious Brahmins. Then Ablewhite is found dead.T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.” Few, if any, of Collins’s successors, have attempted anything so magnificent; have equalled his ability at creating mystery, suspense, and atmosphere; or have maintained the reader’s interest so compellingly. The Moonstone has remained a classic of 19th century literature.
Autoren-Porträt von Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824 to painter and Royal Academy member William Collins and the former governess Harriet Geddes. Collins and his younger brother had little formal education, but Collins referred to a two year journey, beginning when he was twelve to France and Italy, as his real education. When he later attended school in England, he supposedly told stories on demand to a particularly abusive schoolmate to avoid beatings. After failed attempts as a tea importer and barrister, Collins succeeded in getting his first book published, a biography of his father. A year after publishing his first novel, Antonina: or the Fall of Rome, Collins began a lifelong friendship and collaboration with Charles Dickens. By the time Dickens serialized Collins’ novel The Moonstone in 1868, Collins was firmly labeled in the literary world as a sensational writer.
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- Autor: Wilkie Collins
- 2002, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0594081734
- ISBN-13: 9780594081739
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2002
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