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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19th century, 18th Century, Jin dai, s. XIX, 1868Showing 11 featured editions. View all 636 editions?
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The moonstone: Volume II
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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 Strength to go through with it.""
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