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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.
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.
- Wilkie Collins
- 1868
The Moonstone is the first—certainly the first fully-formed—detective novel, and it contains within that great “first” a number of little “firsts”: the first English country house mystery featuring a large guest list of suspects, the first crew of bumbling local policemen mucking about in the evidence, the first detective genius ...
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The Moonstone is set in the mid-19th century, which was a time of immense social, economic, and political transformation in England as well as a crucial period in the history of British colonialism in India.
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)
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.
The Moonstone opens with a written account of the large, yellow, Moonstone diamond, sacred to Hindus as the centerpiece in their idol of the god of the Moon. It has been commanded that three Brahmin priests must always guard the stone.
