Pay What You Want. See all titles. Publisher Website. Follow Your Favorites! Sign in to get custom notifications of new products! Format Publisher Print. Start Over. Advanced Search. Hottest Print from Moonstone. Need help? Common Questions FAQ. Submit Suggestion. Contact us. My Library. Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap. But whose? 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 — was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. A 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, adying 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. To find out more or place an order please contact. Making use of cards to their full, Moonstone features strategic and dynamic combat mechanics unlike any other game on the market. Utilising easy to read character cards, Moonstone is a fast to learn yet deep skirmish game where both players are constantly involved.
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