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The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.' Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rac ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; Francis O'Gorman (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S EliotWhen Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When the diamond goes missing during ...Show more
The Moonstone: A Novel by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics
The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner, it introduced one of the world's most beloved genres, the detective story. At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond sh ...Show more
The Moonstone (the Detective Club) by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
First published in 1868, The Moonstone is considered the very first detective novel in the English language. Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very e ...Show more
The Woman In White (Collins Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.One woman ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, & international intrigue.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Crime Classics Ser.
Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White tells the story of two half-sisters, Laura Fairlie and Marian Halcombe who were embroiled in the sinister plot of Sir Percival Glyde and Count Fosco to take over their family's wealth. It's considered to be one of the first "sensation novels" to be published. Like mos ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library (Cloth)
The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with protagonist Walter H ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics
Wilkie Collins' sixth novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860, when everything from dances to dresses was named after the "woman in white". Nicholas Rance is the author of "Historical Novel and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England".
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and "The Woman in White" is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in North London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The i ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.' One of the earliest works of 'detective' fict ...Show more