| The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics, Mystery & Detective Contributor(s): Collins, Wilkie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592247865 ISBN-13: 9781592247868 Publisher: Borgo Press OUR PRICE: $35.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: When Rachel Verrinder inherits the Moonstone--a huge and accursed yellow diamond stolen generations ago from an Indian shrine--from John Herncastle. she has no idea what evil awaits her. Herncastle intended the bequest as a sinister form of revenge. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Wildside Fantasy Classic |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 6.18" W x 9.4" (1.85 lbs) 440 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 11597 Reading Level: 7.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 34.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Rachel Verrinder inherits the Moonstone -- a huge and accursed yellow diamond, a diamond stolen generations ago from an Indian shrine -- from John Herncastle she has no idea what evil waits for her. Herncastle -- a distant relation, and one spitefully alienated from her immediate family -- intended the bequest as a sinister form of revenge. Revenge indeed: Herncastle, we learn, acquired the Moonstone by means of murder and theft, and knew full well that the jewel would bring dreadful luck upon her. |
Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Wilkie: - "William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dickens' journals All the Year Round and Household Words and the two collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage and never married; he split his time between Caroline Graves, except for a two-year separation, and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children." |