The Moonstone

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. One of the great Victorian novels, The Moonstone has engrossed, entertained and enraptured readers since its first publication in 1868. This edition features an introduction by the renowned historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders.Lady Verinder's uncle gives her the Moonstone - a magnificent diamond as large as an egg - for her eighteenth birthday, but it is not quite the generous gift it first seems. For he obtained it through bloody and nefarious means in India, and legend says the diamond's guardians will stop at nothing to get it back. When the Moonstone is stolen, an innocent man is accused of the crime and from this simple beginning, Wilkie Collins creates a stunning, complex narrative of dark mystery, suspense and atmosphere - and one of the very first detective stories ever written.

Product details

• Authors: Wilkie Collins, Collins Wilkie
• Assisted by: Judith Flanders (Introduction), Flanders Judith (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781509850907
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5090-7
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 157 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Classic crime, FICTION / Epistolary, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary