by Wilkie Collins · William Collins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007420254
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«The Moonstone» is the mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, published by William Collins in paperback (640 pages, in English).
«The Moonstone» narrates the theft of a valuable yellow diamond that Rachel Verinder receives on turning eighteen. Eleven characters recount the investigation from their point of view, while three Brahmin guardians try to recover the stone. Considered an early milestone of the detective genre, the novel is a classic of Victorian mystery.
The Moonstone was originally published in 1868 and this edition belongs to the Collins Classics collection.
For readers of Victorian classics and fans of detective mystery, especially for its multi-narrator structure.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
