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Wilkie collins s the moonstone follows lady julia verinder s family and employees in their attempt to retrieve the priceless diamond of the books titlewhich was first plundered by her brother, the wicked colonel john herncastle, during a violent colonial conquest in india, then gifted to julias daughter rachel on her. The authors prefaces june 30, 1868 in some of my former novels, the object proposed. Eliot called it the first, the longest, and the best of modern english detective novels. Wilkie collins, the moonstone ui victorian wiki uiowa wiki.
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The moonstone woodlands library cooperative overdrive. The moonstone summary the moonstone is a 19thcentury novel by the master of sensation fiction, wilkie collins. Upon inheriting the moonstone, a huge and priceless diamond, rachel verinders delight turns to dismay when the gem suddenly disappears. The moonstone collins classics kindle edition by collins, wilkie. Many of the standard ground rules for detective fiction can be found in this work. Summary read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. The moonstone is a novel by wilkie collins that was first published in 1868. Taken from an old family letter i am writing to my family to explain why i am no longer my cousins friend, and to end the misunderstanding my silence has caused.
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