The Moonstone

Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Wilkie Collins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

512 Seiten

2015
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-422-1 (ISBN)

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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, The Moonstone is here presented with an extensive section on Collins's life and works.

When Rachel Verinder’s legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved, Franklin Blake, who is guilty. Around this central axis of crime and thwarted love, Collins constructs an ingenious plot of teasing twists and surprises, and an elaborate multi-voiced narrative that sustains the tension all the way to its stunning ending.

Described by T.S. Eliot as the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone is an important precursor of the modern mystery and suspense genres.

Wilkie Collins remains most famous for his novels The Moonstone and The Woman in White, in which he pioneered a new style of sensation writing, the influence of which can still be seen in today's culture in the genres of crime, mystery and suspens. He is also renowned for his close relationship with Charles Dickens, who regarded him as the most talented of his many protégés.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.2015
Reihe/Serie	Evergreens
Verlagsort	Richmond
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 198 mm
Gewicht	391 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
ISBN-10	1-84749-422-6 / 1847494226
ISBN-13	978-1-84749-422-1 / 9781847494221
Zustand	Neuware