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   When did Wilkie Collins write the moonstone?

   • The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. Its publication was started on 4 January 1868 and was completed on 8 August 1868.

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   When did Dickens write the moonstone?

   • Dickens published the novel in his magazine, All the Year Round in serial fashion. The Moonstone is often thought to be the first English detective novel introducing Detective Cuff to readers in 1868. Victorian readers would have been utterly captivated by the compelling plot and the intriguing case of the mystery surrounding the Moonstone.

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   When was the Moonstone published?

   • Its publication was started on 4 January 1868 and was completed on 8 August 1868. The story was serialised in Charles Dickens 's magazine All the Year Round. Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877. A yellow diamond with a flaw in the centre, similar to the "Moonstone" of the novel.

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   Who wrote The Moonstone?

   • The Moonstone was eventually published in book form by William Tinsley on the 16 July 1868; it was dedicated to his mother. A major theme of the novel is the intrusion of imperialism on everyday English life.

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   What happened to Wilkie Collins in the moonstone?

   • In his second Preface from 1871 Wilkie Collins tells his readers how two personal calamities hit him at once, when he was only a third of the way through The Moonstone. His mother died, and he was stricken with the gout which was to plague him for the rest of his life. He had to dictate the rest of the book.

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   Was the moonstone a good book?

   • The Moonstone, published in 1868, and the last novel of what is generally regarded as the most successful decade of Collins' author's career, was, despite a somewhat cool reception from both Dickens and the critics, a significant return to form.

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   The Moonstone: A Romance by Wilkie Collins is an 1868 British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. Its publication was started on 4 January 1868 and was completed on 8 August 1868.

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   The Moonstone, one of the first English detective novels, written by Wilkie Collins and published in 1868. A debased Englishman steals the moonstone, a sacred gem, from India. It brings bad luck to each of its English possessors. When the gem disappears from a young Englishwoman’s room and three.

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   William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of ...

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   Full title The Moonstone: A Romance. Author Wilkie Collins. Type of work Novel. Genre Victorian novel; sensation novel; detective novel. Language English. Time and place written 1864–1867; London. Date of first publication 1868. Publisher All the Year Round (England), Harper's Weekly (USA)

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   Wilkie Collins wrote his first novel at the age of 20, when he found himself utterly bored working for a London tea merchant. The book, Iolani: Or, Tahiti as It Was, met universal rejection from publishers and did not resurface until more than 150 years later, when Princeton University Press published it in 1999. Unfortunately, Collins never ...

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   Published in 1868, one of the two books (with The Woman in White) for which Collins is most famous. The Moonstone was described by T. S. Eliot as 'the first and greatest of English detective novels' although priority is now usually given to The Notting Hill Mystery.

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   The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond.