An edition of The Moonstone
(1868)
The Moonstone (Penguin Classics)
by Wilkie Collins, Pieter Koster, Sandra Kemp, and Andronum
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One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.
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Fiction, Jewelry theft, East Indians, Police, Drama, History, Detective and mystery stories, Readers, English fiction, Country homes, Diamonds, Young women, Juvenile literature, Upper class, Classic Literature, Mystery fiction, Children: Grades 4-6, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Verinder, rachel (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Murder, Moonstones, Literature, Dictionaries, English language, French, Spanish, William, Wilkie, Collins, Bantam, Classics, The Moonstone, Romance, Mystery Crime, Swords, Poison, Thievery, Kidnapping, Hypnotism, Fear, Joy, Compassion, Anger, Death, Crime, fiction, English literature, Fiction, crime, Juvenile fiction, Vol de bijoux, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, England -- Fiction, Country homes -- Fiction, Police -- England -- Fiction, Jewelry theft -- Fiction, East Indians -- England -- Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, English, English Detective and mystery stories, Translations into Russian, Study and teaching, Chinese speakers, Zhen tan xiao shuo, Suo xie ben, Chang pian xiao shuo, Novela policíaca inglesa, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Mystery and detective stories, Children's fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, Mœurs et coutumes, GeneralPeople
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19th century, 18th Century, Jin dai, s. XIX, 1868Showing 11 featured editions. View all 636 editions?
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The moonstone: Volume II
1868, Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine Street, Strand
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"In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strenght to go through with it.'"
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