Who,in the name of wonder,had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawerA celebrated Indian yellow diamond is first stolen from India,then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who took it And where is it now A dramatist as well as a novelist,Wilkie Collins gives to each of his narratorsa household servant,a detective,a lawyer,a cloth-eared Evangelical,a dying medical manvibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves.One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction,The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more,not less inexplicable. Collins's novel of addictions is itself addictive,moving through a sequence of startling revelations towards the final disclosure of the truth. Entranced with double lives,with men and women who only know part of the story,Collins weaves their narratives into a web of suspense. The Moonstone is a text that grows imaginatively out of the secrets that the unconventional Collins was obliged to keep as he wrote the novel.
Publisher: Oxford University PressISBN: 9780198819394Weight: 398 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 26 mm
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