Classic / British English The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder’s uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday present, but that same night it is stolen… The Moonstone is now seen as the first, and one of the best, English detective novels. About the Author English novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins was a prolific writer with a body of work comprising thirty novels, over sixty short stories, more than a dozen plays, and a wide range of non-fiction pieces. Collins is best known for his novels The Woman in White, an early sensation novela genre combining shocking gothic horror with everyday domestic settingsand The Moonstone, which is credited as one of the first modern mystery novels. In the 1850s Collins met Charles Dickens and the two struck up a friendship, which lead to Collins becoming a frequent contributor to Dickens s journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Many of his stories have been adapted for
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Author: | WILKIE COLLINS |
ISBN: | 9781405882682 |
Publisher: | PEARSON EDUCATION ASIA |
Category: | SCHOOL TEXTBOOK | ENGLISH |
Series: | PENGUIN GRADED READERS |
Level: | Primary |
BookCover: | Paperback |
Number Of Pages: | 128 |
Volume Number | 0 |
Number Of Volumes | 0 |
Edition No: | 2 |