Name: The Moonstone [With CD (Audio)]
Price: 932.00 TWD
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Author: Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9788853005403

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Cideb Editrice

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 14.7 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

8853005408

ISBN13

9788853005403

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Moonstone [With CD (Audio)]"

Wilkie Collins Adapted by Christopher Hall Activities by Janet Cameron Mystery & horror On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives a very special present: the Moonstone – a large yellow diamond from India: but that night the Moonstone is stolen… In what T. S. Eliot called ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern detective novels’, Wilkie Collins tells a story full of mystery, suspense and psychological insight. Dossier: Imperialism on the Indian Subcontinent Exit test

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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