Name: The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics) (in English)
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Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9780198819394

portada The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Illustrated by

Francis O'Gorman

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

576

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780198819394

Edition No.

0003

Synopsis "The Moonstone (Oxford World's Classics) (in English)"

Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer? One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more not less inexplicable. A celebrated Indian diamond is first stolen from India then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who took it? And where is it now? A dramatist as well as a novelist, Collins gives to each of his narrators--a household servant, for instance, a detective, a lawyer, a cloth-eared Evangelical, a dying medical man--vibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves. Collins's novel of addictions is itself addictive, moving through a sequence of startling revelations towards the final disclosure of the truth. Entranced with double lives and with men and women who only know part of the story, The Moonstone is also a text that also grows imaginatively out of the secrets that the unconventional Collins was obliged to keep as he wrote the novel.

Wilkie Collins

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(Londres 1824-1889) Dramaturgo, novelista y prolífico autor de relatos. A los 17 años comienza a trabajar en una empresa de comercio de té mientras escribe Ioláni, o Tahití tal como era (Gótica nº 32), obra que no vio la luz hasta más de un siglo después de su muerte. Estudió Derecho y, aunque nunca llegó a ejercer, sí utilizó los conocimientos jurídicos en muchas de sus obras, y la crítica le considera uno de los padres del género policiaco. En 1851, conoce a Charles Dickens, al que le unirá una profunda amistad y publicará en su semanario All the Year Around sus principales obras. Tras la muerte de Dickens en 1870, su popularidad decae. Padeció de gota reumática la que le acabó provocando una adicción al opio. El epitafio de su tumba le destaca como el autor de la novela La dama de blanco.

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Federico CuartasThursday, April 15, 2021
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" Esto es un clásico de ladrones joyas casas de campo inglesas soleadas y medio de la neblina (a la vez). Buenas notas, edición de confiar 100% con letra grande fácil de leer y cambiar de pagina. "
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