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Collins W. Lunnyj kamen'
Collins W. Lunnyj kamen'
| Author | Collins W. |
| Title | Lunnyj kamen' |
| Description | The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is one of the first major detective novels in English literature. At the centre of the plot is a yellow diamond, taken from India and surrounded by a legend of a curse. A young heroine receives the stone on her eighteenth birthday, and that same night the jewel disappears from her room. A family celebration turns into an investigation, as suspicion gradually falls on people from her closest circle.
Collins builds the intrigue as a chain of testimonies. Different participants narrate the events, so the reader keeps comparing versions and noticing discrepancies between them. Each narrator has a distinct voice and a distinct way of understanding what happened. The novel already contains techniques that later became familiar in detective fiction. Wilkie Collins was an English writer and playwright. He is regarded as a master of the sensation novel, a form that helped prepare the ground for later detective prose. He wrote gripping novels in which detective intrigue exposes the hidden tensions of Victorian family life and society. |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publisher | Jeksmo |
| Pages | 512 |
| Cover | Paperback |
| ISBN | 978-5-04-173827-3 |
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135.00 kr.