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The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White, to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first English detective novel. Many of the standard ground rules for detective fiction can be found in this work, as well as examples of Collins' forward-thinking approach to the treatment of Indians and servants.
Jannes: A (fictional) tale about Collins and his friendship with Dickens. "The Moonstone" in prominently featured. Give it a try if you're into historical thrillers.
TineOliver: Both are essentially mystery novels, although Collins is both more pioneering and, in my view better written. While the two novels were published approximately 30 years apart, both are set in the mid 19th century. Reading both books allows the reader to place the works in context of other mystery novels from the 19th century. Accordingly, I am not suggesting that just because you enjoyed one means you will enjoy the other to the same extent.… (meer)
Wilkie Collins werd me aangeraden door L.T. Ik dacht eerst dat het een hedendaadse vrouwelijke schrijfster betrof, tot ik aan de kaft zag, dat het een 19-de eeuwse schrijver was, tijdgenoot van Charles Dickens. Ik begon met zeer veel argwaan aan het boek, zou het enkele bladzijden een kans geven, ben niet zo'n fan van literatuur uit die periode, wegens de niet-altijd- leesbaarheid daarvan. Tot mijn grote,aangename verbazing bleek het boek fantastisch te zijn, het had me meteen in zijn ban, kon het niet meer wegleggen, verwaarloosde dagenlang het huishouden, las s'nachts door , gewoon om het genot van het lezen van zo'n goed verhaal. OP dit soort boeken zou een waarschuwing moeten staan:' opgepast, wie hieraan begint kan niet meer terug.'Kan maar vijf sterren geven,anders kreeg dit juweel er meer. Zal altijd één van mijn favorieten blijven. Begon direkt erna aan de vrouw in het wit, ook van Wilkie Collins. ( )
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IN MEMORIAM MATRIS
Eerste woorden
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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)
On the twenty-seventh of June last, I received instructions from Sergeant Cuff to follow three men; suspected of murder, and described as Indians. (Epilogue)
Citaten
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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.
Laatste woorden
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What will be the next adventure of the Moonstone? Who can tell? (Epilogue)
But, above all, it is a novel to enjoy and one envies future readers the pleasure of coming to its thrills and surprises for the first time. (Introduction)
The famous Koh-i-Noor is also supposed to have been one of the sacred jems of India; and, more than this, to have been the subject of a prediction, which prophesied certain misfortune to the persons who should divert it from its ancient uses. (Preface)
I am not only persuaded of Herncastle's guilt; I am even fanciful enough to believe that he will live to regret it, if he keeps the Diamond; and that others will live to regret taking it from him, if he gives the Diamond away. (Prologue)
The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White, to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first English detective novel. Many of the standard ground rules for detective fiction can be found in this work, as well as examples of Collins' forward-thinking approach to the treatment of Indians and servants.