The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

An elegant gift edition of one of the very first detective stories ever written, introduced by historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders.

William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand before reading law as a student at Lincoln's Inn. However his real passion was for writing and, in 1850, he published his first novel, Antonina. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. An unconventional individual, he never married but established long-term liaisons with two separate partners. He died in 1889.

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ISBN 13	9781509850907
ISBN 10	1509850902
Title	The Moonstone
Author	Wilkie Collins
Series	Macmillan Collector's Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2018-05-03
Number of pages	688
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