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| Title Statement | The Moonstone: a romance / Wilkie Collins ; edited with an introduction and note by Francis O'Gorman. |
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| Series | Oxford world's classics |
| Author | Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 |
| Additional Contributors | O'Gorman, Francis |
| Publication | Oxford: Oxford University Press,2019. |
| Edition | New edition. |
| Extent of Item | xlvii, 515 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780198819394 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr04673290 |
| General Notes | "First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 1999"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary | "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"--Back cover. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Country homes--Fiction |
| Diamonds--Fiction--India | |
| East Indians--Fiction--England | |
| Jewelry theft--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Detective and mystery fiction |
