The Moonstone
Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019-08-08
ISBN 10 : 9780198819394
Pages : 577 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (819 downloads)
Download The Moonstone PDF Format Full Free by Wilkie Collins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?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. Collins's novel of addictions is itself addictive, moving through a sequence of startling revelations towards the final disclosure of thetruth. Entranced with double lives, with men and women who only know part of the story, Collins weaves their narratives into a web of suspense. The Moonstone is a text that grows imaginatively out of the secrets that the unconventional Collins was obliged to keep as he wrote the novel.