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Moonstone : Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) by Wilkie Collins (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Subtitle: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens). Author: Wilkie Collins. Series: Evergreens. Described by T.S. Eliot as the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone is an important precursor of the modern mystery and suspense genres.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAlma Classics

ISBN-101847494226

ISBN-139781847494221

eBay Product ID (ePID)228613075

Product Key Features

Original LanguageEnglish

Book TitleMoonstone : Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Mystery & Detective / General

Publication Year2015

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorWilkie Collins

Book SeriesEvergreens Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight13.9 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"The Moonstone is the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels." - T.S. Eliot "Probably the very finest detective story ever written." - Dorothy L. Sayers "You can't help feeling that Wilkie Collins was more in tune with modernity than his friend Charles Dickens." - Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823/.8

SynopsisWhen 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 crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voiced narrative that sustains the tension all the way to its stunning ending., 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 crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voiced narrative that sustains the tension all the way to its stunning ending. Described by T.S. Eliot as the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone is an important precursor of the modern mystery and suspense genres.

LC Classification NumberPR4492