The Moonstone : a romance /
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 and a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019].
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| Edition: | New edition. |
| Series: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| 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 and a dying medical man, vibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves. |
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| Physical Description: | xlvii, 515 pages : illustations ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780198819394 0198819390 |