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The Moonstone (1868)

by Wilkie Collins

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Rachel Verinder

Godfrey Ablewhite

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Yorkshire, England, UK

London, England, UK

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Related movies

The Moonstone (1972 | IMDb)

The Moonstone (1996 | IMDb)

The Moonstone (1934 | IMDb)

The Moonstone (1915 | IMDb)

The Moonstone (1959 | IMDb)

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Dedication

IN MEMORIAM MATRIS

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In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: 'Now I saw, though too late, The Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.'

Intending praise, T. S. Eliot slung an albatross around the neck of The Moonstone with his encomium: 'the first and best of detective novels.' (Introduction)

In some of my former novels, the object proposed has been to trace the influence of circumstances upon character. (Preface)

The circumstances under which The Moonstone was originally written have invested the book - in the author's mind - with an interest peculiarly its own. (Preface to a New Edition)

I address these lines - written in India - to my relatives in England. (Prologue)

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Quotations

We are all of us more or less unwilling to be brought into the world. And we are all of us right.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

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Moonstone - new LE 2nd November 2023 in Folio Society Devotees

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Melvil Decimal System (DDC)

823.8Literature › English & Old English literatures › English fiction › 1837-1899

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PR4494.M62Language and Literature › English › English Literature › 19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900

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