1 option
The Moonstone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Wilkie.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (936 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White , to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first English detective novel. Many of the standard ground rules for detective fiction can be found in this work, as well as examples of Collins' forward-thinking approach to the treatment of Indians and servants.
- Contents:
- Title; Contents; Prologue; First Period; Second Period; First Narrative; Second Narrative; Third Narrative; Fourth Narrative; Fifth Narrative; Sixth Narrative; Seventh Narrative; Eighth Narrative; Epilogue; Endnotes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-77556-688-9
- OCLC:
- 476249357
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.