The moonstone /
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
The moonstone / Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. - 1 online resource (lviii, 502 pages). - Oxford world's classics . - Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages xl-xxli).
Cover; Copyright Page; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; A Note on Composition, Reception, and Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Wilkie Collins; Explanatory Notes; Footnotes
John Sutherland provides a fascinating introduction to a new edition of what T.S.Eliot called 'the first and greatest of all English detective novels'. - ;'the first and greatest of English detective novels' T.S.Eliot A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for.
English.
9780191560668 (electronic bk.) 0191560669 (electronic bk.) 0585361657 (electronic bk.) 9780585361659 (electronic bk.) 0191605379 9780191605376
Jewelry theft--England--Fiction.
Police--England--Fiction.
East Indians--England--Fiction.
Mystery and detective stories.
Vol de bijoux--Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde)--Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--Mystery & Detective--General.
East Indians
Jewelry theft.
Police.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
England--Fiction.
Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
England.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
PR4494 / .M62 1999eb
823/.8
The moonstone / Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. - 1 online resource (lviii, 502 pages). - Oxford world's classics . - Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages xl-xxli).
Cover; Copyright Page; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; A Note on Composition, Reception, and Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Wilkie Collins; Explanatory Notes; Footnotes
John Sutherland provides a fascinating introduction to a new edition of what T.S.Eliot called 'the first and greatest of all English detective novels'. - ;'the first and greatest of English detective novels' T.S.Eliot A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for.
English.
9780191560668 (electronic bk.) 0191560669 (electronic bk.) 0585361657 (electronic bk.) 9780585361659 (electronic bk.) 0191605379 9780191605376
Jewelry theft--England--Fiction.
Police--England--Fiction.
East Indians--England--Fiction.
Mystery and detective stories.
Vol de bijoux--Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde)--Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--Mystery & Detective--General.
East Indians
Jewelry theft.
Police.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
England--Fiction.
Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
England.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
PR4494 / .M62 1999eb
823/.8