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The moonstone [electronic resource] / Wilkie Collins.
The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White, to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first English detective novel. Many of the standard ground rules for detective fiction can be found in this work, as well as examples of Collins' forward-thinking approach to the treatment of Indians and servants.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781620113639 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1620113635 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: [S.I.] : Duke Classics, c2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "From a 1868 edition"--T.p. verso. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, June 15, 2012). |
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| Subject: | Young women > England > Fiction. Diamonds > India > Fiction. Jewelry theft > Fiction. Upper class > England > Fiction. East Indians > England > Fiction. Fiction > Mystery & Detective > General. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Electronic books. |
