The Moonstone
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Published: 15th November 1992
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Publishing Details
The Moonstone
By (Author) Wilkie Collins
Everyman
Everyman's Library
15th November 1992
26th November 1992
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.8
Physical Properties
Hardback
480
Width 134mm, Height 206mm, Spine 34mm
580g
Description
The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse.
Author Bio
Wilkie Collins was born in London on 8 January 1824. His father was the landscape painter William Collins. After school he worked for a tea merchant before studying to become a lawyer. In 1848 he published a biography of his father and his first novel, Antonina, followed in 1850. In 1851 he met Charles Dickens who would later edit and publish some of his novels. Collins's novels were extremely popular in his own time as well as now. The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868) are his best known works. Collins was linked with two women (one of whom bore him three children) but he never married. He died on 23 September 1889.
