The Moonstone

Zusatztext You can't help feeling that Wilkie Collins was more in tune with modernity than his friend Charles Dickens. Informationen zum Autor Wilkie Collins Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, The Moonstone is here presented with an extensive section on Collins's life and works.

Product details

• Authors: Wilkie Collins
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.06.2015
• EAN: 9781847494221
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-422-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Evergreens; Alma Classics Evergreens; Alma Classics; Evergreens; Alma Classics Evergreens
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Classic crime