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The Moonstone

English · Hardback

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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.

About the author










William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand before reading law as a student at Lincoln's Inn. However his real passion was for writing and, in 1850, he published his first novel, Antonina. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. An unconventional individual, he never married but established long-term liaisons with two separate partners. He died in 1889.

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

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