Name: The Moonstone (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Price: 54.58 EUR
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781774769232

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The Moonstone (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Royal Classics

Language

English

Pages

472

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.86 kg.

ISBN13

9781774769232

Synopsis "The Moonstone (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)"

Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. The diamond is of great religious significance and extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. At her eighteenth birthday party, she wears the Moonstone, and later that night the diamond is stolen from Rachel's bedroom. A period of turmoil, unhappiness, misunderstandings, and ill luck ensues. The Moonstone is an early example of the modern detective novel and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. The Moonstone of the title is a diamond (not to be confused with the semi-precious moonstone gem). It gained its name from its association with the Hindu god of the Moon, Chandra. It is protected by three hereditary guardians on the orders of Vishnu, and waxes and wanes in brilliance along with the light of the Moon. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian-inspired dust jacket.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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