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The Moonstone Summary

The Moonstone, by Wilke Collins, is an exciting nineteenth century English detective story. The object of everyone's attention is the Moonstone, a beautiful and flawed diamond that was stolen from the statue of a moon good from a shrine in a remote area of India. The theft occurred by a Mohammedan emperor in the eleventh century. The stone eventually was taken by John Herncastle during the storming of Seringapatam in 1799. When...

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The Moonstone

5,139 words, approx. 18 pages

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Aprolific writer, Wilkie Collins (1824-89) authored some 25 novels, along with numerous articles, short stories, and plays. He was a close friend and collaborator of... Read more

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The Moonstone

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Extracted from a Family Paper I address these lines—written in India—to my relatives in England. My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand ... Read more

Wilkie Collins Biographies (5)

William Wilkie Collins

427 words, approx. 2 pages

The English author William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) wrote intricately plotted novels of sensational intrigue which helped establish the conventions of modern detective fiction.Wilkie Collins was bor... Read more

(William) Wilkie Collins

8,491 words, approx. 29 pages

"Make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em wait." This adage of Wilkie Collins epitomizes his success as the leading sensation novelist of Victorian England. Combining expert plotting with carefully desc... Read more

(William) Wilkie Collins

7,900 words, approx. 27 pages

Although best known to modern readers as the author of The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868)--which T. S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers have called the best English detective story--Wilkie Col... Read more

(William) Wilkie Collins

7,762 words, approx. 26 pages

Victorian fiction writer, essayist, and social commentator Wilkie Collins continues to perplex critics and entertain readers. Critics, pointing to his stereotyped characters, melodramatic plots, somet... Read more

William Wilkie Collins

8,461 words, approx. 29 pages

Biography EssayAlthough best known to modern readers as the author of The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868)—which T. S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers have called the best English dete... Read more

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