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Written by Wilkie Collins in 1868, "The Moonstone" is set in Seringapatam, India in 1799. A violent, cruel man named John Hercastle has stolen the large sacred Hindu yellow diamond called the Moonstone. Years before, the diamond has been taken off of the forehead of the Moon-God in a Brahman shrine. Many years later, back in Britain, Hercastle gives the diamond to a young Englishwoman named Rachel Verinder on the day of her eighteenth birthday. Rachel wears the diamond at the party for all to see. That night, the diamond is stolen from her room. Thus begins the saga of The Moonstone and all of the turmoil, unhappiness, misunderstandings and bad luck that it brings. "The Moonstone" is widely regarded as the precursor to modern mystery and suspense novels. T.S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels." Dorothy L. Sayers said it is "Probably the very finest detective story ever written."
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Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824. He lived a lavish lifestyle of good food, too much wine, flamboyant clothes, frequent travel and vast amounts of opium to relieve the symptoms of his rheumatic gout - a form of arthritis. The opium gave Collins paranoid delusions, one being that he had a "Ghost Wilkie" that traveled with him. There is a strong thread of the effects of opium use throughtout "The Moonstone". He was good friends with Charles Dickens and his brother married Dicken's younger daughter, Kate. Dickens and Collins collaborated on a number of works. Collins wrote over thirty major books, with "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White" being to most widely known. Collins never married but had long affairs with two women, having three children with one of them. WIlkie Collins died in September of 1889 at the age of 65.
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- PublisherGrolier
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0862250331
- ISBN 13 9780862250331
- BindingHardcover
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