8 edition of The Moonstone found in the catalog.
The Moonstone
Published
2008
by Penguin Group UK in London
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Written in
The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff and the Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand. T. S. Eliot famously described THE MOONSTONE as "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels", but, as Sandra Kemp discusses in her introduction, it offers many other facets, which reveal Collins"s sensibilities as untypical of his era.
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Format | eBook |
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Open Library | OL24298683M |
ISBN 10 | 9780141909264 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 606552326 |
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The performance was outstanding. I usually do not think much of using multiple readers for novels, but in this case it truly added to the book. The Moonstone, a valuable diamond that has already been stolen once, is stolen again. About The Moonstone "The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery.
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See a complete list of the characters in The Moonstone and in-depth analyses of Rachel Verinder, Franklin Blake, Ezra Jennings, and Godfrey Ablewhite. For awhile the two were one book in my chaotic universe.
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The Moonstone was the only object that interested him in the smallest degree. The fame of it seemed to have reached him, in some of those perilous Indian places where his wanderings had lain.
After looking at it silently for so long a time that Miss Rachel began to get confused, he said to her in his cool immovable way, “If you ever go to. Jan 27, · The Moonstone is often said to be the godfather of the classic English detective story, its founding text. TS Eliot, claiming that the genre was "invented by Collins and not by Poe", declared it.
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Jul 15, · Moonstone is the first book in the Unbidden Magic Series. After reading it, I'd say it's mostly appropriate for young teens. However, I immensely enjoyed it myself & I plan to read the series to my kids after I aquire the rest of the books - as long as they are as clean as the first/5.
''The Moonstone'' by Wilkie Collins is an early example of the English detective novel. It both conforms to and differs from mid-Victorian formulations of the genre and regards issues such as. The Moonstone opens with a written account of the large, yellow, Moonstone diamond, sacred to Hindus as the centerpiece in their idol of the god of the Moon.
It has been commanded that three Brahmin priests must always guard the stone. John Herncastle, while fighting for the British Army in India inkilled the three Brahmins who were then guarding the diamond and took it back to England Cited by: Apr 20, · Synopsis The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday.
That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on /5(53). Aug 04, · Book Review: 'The Moonstone,' By Wilkie Collins | A Hidden Gem Of A Detective Novel Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone is a sleuthing novel that was ahead of its time.
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Now flash forward a couple of decades: our narrator is now Gabriel Betteredge, the old steward or butler for a wealthy English family living in the country. Buy a cheap copy of The Moonstone book by Wilkie Collins.
Called the first and greatest of English detective novels by festivous-ilonse.com, The Moonstone is a masterpiece of suspense. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the Free shipping over $Cited by: The Moonstone has all the features that we usually associate with English detective novels—an English country setting, a bloody murder, a tragic suicide, a frustrated love affair, a bumbling local policeman, and a brilliant London detective.
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The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'.Oct 31, · With Joshua Silver, Leo Wringer, Terenia Edwards, Nisa Cole.
A diamond goes missing after a party at an English country house, and numerous suspects have a motive for its disappearance.6/10().The book review of The Moonstone was particularly a little hard to write. The Moonstone was called ‘the first and the best of modern English detective novel’ by T.
S. Eliot. It certainly laid the foundation of detective fiction but it isn’t the best.