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The Moonstone
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release Date : 2021-01-01
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The Moonstone is generally considered to be the first detective novel in the English language. The Moonstone of the title is a diamond. It gained its name from its association with the Hindu god of the moon, Shiva. Originally set in the forehead of a sacred statue of the god at Somnath, and later at Benares, it was said to be protected by hereditary guardians on the orders of Vishnu, and to wax and wane in brilliance along with the light of the moon. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel.
The Moonstone
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Author : William Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-29
The Moonstone written by William Wilkie Collins and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-29 with Art categories.
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century detective novel. A young woman inherits a large diamond on her eighteenth birthday, the diamond is however stolen and the mystery begins.
The Moonstone Mystery Classic Detective Story From The Prolific English Writer Best Known For The Woman In White No Name Armadale The Law And The Lady The Dead Secret Man And Wife Poor Miss Finch The Black Robe And More
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2015-05-21
The Moonstone Mystery Classic Detective Story From The Prolific English Writer Best Known For The Woman In White No Name Armadale The Law And The Lady The Dead Secret Man And Wife Poor Miss Finch The Black Robe And More written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-21 with Fiction categories.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Moonstone (Mystery Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. The story incorporates elements of the legendary origins of the Hope Diamond (or perhaps the Orloff Diamond). Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.
The Moonstone Mystery
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Author : Antony MARSDEN (pseud. [i.e. Graham Sutton.])
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
The Moonstone Mystery written by Antony MARSDEN (pseud. [i.e. Graham Sutton.]) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with categories.
Agatha Christie Read
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Agatha Christie Read written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Fiction categories.
Agatha Christie is known for reading 'the moonstone' and the book was a great influence on her own works. This book was published some 50 odd years prior to her own works being published. With 12 Illustrations to enhance the readers enjoyment. This book was seen as the first book in the series of the traditional detective genre. Instantly recognisable to all Agatha Christie readers will be a number of interesting elements that can truly be said to have influenced the great lady herself. Colonel Herncastle, an unpleasant former soldier, brings the Moonstone back with him from India where he acquired it by theft and murder during the Siege of Seringapatam. Angry at his family, who shun him, he leaves it in his will as a birthday gift to his niece Rachel, thus exposing her to attack by the stone's hereditary guardians, who, legend says, will stop at nothing to retrieve it. Rachel wears the stone to her birthday party, but that night it disappears from her room. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who have been near the house; on Rosanna Spearman, a maidservant who begins to act oddly and who then drowns herself in a local quicksand; and on Rachel herself, who also behaves suspiciously and is suddenly furious with Franklin Blake, with whom she has previously appeared to be enamoured, when he directs attempts to find it. Despite the efforts of Sergeant Cuff, a renowned detective, the house party ends with the mystery unsolved, and the protagonists disperse. During the ensuing year there are hints that the diamond was removed from the house and may be in a London bank vault, having been pledged as surety to a moneylender. The Indian jugglers are still nearby, watching and waiting. Rachel's mother dies, increasing her grief and isolation, and she first accepts and then rejects a marriage proposal from her cousin Godfrey Ablewhite, a philanthropist who was also present at the birthday dinner and whose father owns the bank near Rachel's old family home. Finally Franklin Blake returns from travelling abroad and determines to solve the mystery. He first discovers that Rosanna Spearman's behaviour was due to her having fallen in love with him. She found evidence (a paint smear on his nightclothes) that convinced her that he was the thief and concealed it to save him, confusing the trail of evidence and throwing suspicion on herself. In despair at her inability to make him acknowledge her despite all she had done for him, she committed suicide, leaving behind the smeared gown and a letter he did not receive at the time because of his hasty departure abroad.
The Moonstone Mystery Thriller Classic
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2015-05-21
The Moonstone Mystery Thriller Classic written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-21 with Fiction categories.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. The story incorporates elements of the legendary origins of the Hope Diamond (or perhaps the Orloff Diamond). Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.
The Moonstone
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 1999-03-09
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-09 with Fiction categories.
Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins’s classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s. Collins’s story revolves around a diamond stolen from a Hindu holy place. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again. As the story unravels through multiple eyewitness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuff—with a face “sharp as a hatchet”—looks for the culprit. One of Collins’s best-loved novels, with an exciting plot moved along by deftly-drawn characters and elegant pacing, The Moonstone was also turned into a play by Collins; the play appears as an appendix to this edition.
The Moonstone Mystery
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Author : Antony Marsden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
The Moonstone Mystery written by Antony Marsden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with categories.
The Moonstone
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-10-11
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with categories.
The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set inthe forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon. Partlyfrom its peculiar colour, partly from a superstition which representedit as feeling the influence of the deity whom it adorned, and growingand lessening in lustre with the waxing and waning of the moon, itfirst gained the name by which it continues to be known in India tothis day--the name of THE MOONSTONE. A similar superstition was onceprevalent, as I have heard, in ancient Greece and Rome; not applying,however (as in India), to a diamond devoted to the service of a god, butto a semi-transparent stone of the inferior order of gems, supposed tobe affected by the lunar influences--the moon, in this latter case also,giving the name by which the stone is still known to collectors in ourown time.
The Moonstone
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Author : Wilkie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Alma Classics
Release Date : 2007
The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and has been published by Alma Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
Described by T.S. Eliot as "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels," Wilkie Collins's classic The Moonstone is also an important precursor of the modern mystery and suspense genres. 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 a crime and a thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voiced narrative that never flags in human interest. A huge hit when first published and ever since, The Moonstone keeps the reader guessing until the end, and together with The Woman in White places Collins among the greatest storytellers in the English language.