The moonstone / / Wilkie Collins
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| Autore: |
Collins Wilkie <1824-1889, >
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| Titolo: |
The moonstone / / Wilkie Collins
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Open Road Media Integrated Media, , 2014 |
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| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1024 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.54 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History 19th century Fiction |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Contents; PROLOGUE; THE STORY; FIRST PERIOD; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; CHAPTER IX; CHAPTER X; CHAPTER XI; CHAPTER XII; CHAPTER XIII; CHAPTER XIV; CHAPTER XV; CHAPTER XVI; CHAPTER XVII; CHAPTER XVIII; CHAPTER XIX; CHAPTER XX; CHAPTER XXI; CHAPTER XXII; CHAPTER XXIII; SECOND PERIOD; FIRST NARRATIVE; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; SECOND NARRATIVE; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; THIRD NARRATIVE; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III |
| CHAPTER IVCHAPTER V; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; CHAPTER IX; CHAPTER X; FOURTH NARRATIVE; FIFTH NARRATIVE; CHAPTER I; SIXTH NARRATIVE; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; SEVENTH NARRATIVE; EIGHTH NARRATIVE; EPILOGUE; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; Copyright | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The novel that T. S. Eliot called "the first, the longest, and the best of the modern English detective novels"Guarded by three Brahmin priests, the Moonstone is a religious relic, the centerpiece in a sacred statue of the Hindu god of the moon. It is also a giant yellow diamond of enormous value, and its temptation is irresistible to the corrupt John Herncastle, a colonel in the British Army in India. After murdering the three guardian priests and bringing the diamond back to England with him, Herncastle bequeaths it to his niece, Rachel, knowing full well that danger will follow. True to its |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Moonstone |
| ISBN: | 1-4804-8416-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828146803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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