Name: La Pierre de Lune (in French)
SKU: 59127019
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Author: de Clermont-Tonnerre, La Comtesse Gede ; Collins, Wilkie
ISBN: 9781515094036

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Translated by

La Comtesse Gede de Clermont-Tonnerre

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

576

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x3 cm

Weight

0.76 kg.

ISBN13

9781515094036

Synopsis "La Pierre de Lune (in French)"

La Pierre de lune est un très gros diamant jaune, incrusté dans une statue hindoue représentant la lune. Il est volé par le colonel Herncastle durant la prise de Srirangapatna en 1799. À sa mort, Herncastle offre le diamant à sa nièce, Miss Rachel Verinder. Selon son testament, il lui est remis le jour de son anniversaire. Mais à peine en prend-elle possession, que le diamant lui est volé la nuit-même, pendant son sommeil, dans un tiroir de sa chambre.

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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