{"product_id":"the-moonstone-9780198819394","title":"The Moonstone","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more not less inexplicable. A celebrated Indian diamond is first stolen from India then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who took it? And where is it now? A dramatist as well as a novelist, Collins gives to each of his narrators--a household servant, for instance, a detective, a lawyer, a cloth-eared Evangelical, a dying medical man--vibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves. Collins's novel of addictions is itself addictive, moving through a sequence of startling revelations towards the final disclosure of the truth. Entranced with double lives and with men and women who only know part of the story, \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e is also a text that also grows imaginatively out of the secrets that the unconventional Collins was obliged to keep as he wrote the novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilkie Collins\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancis O'Gorman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has edited Anthony Trollope's \u003cem\u003eThe Duke's Children\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eFramley Parsonage\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003eThe Way We Live Now\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and \u003cem\u003eOrley Farm\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) as well as Elizabeth Gaskell's \u003cem\u003eSylvia's Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) and John Ruskin's \u003cem\u003ePraeterita\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) for Oxford World's Classics. His other most recent books include the Twenty-first Century Oxford Authors, \u003cem\u003eAlgernon Charles Swinburne\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) and volume 5 of the Oxford English Texts, \u003cem\u003eSelected Prose of Edward Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e (2017).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612913963282,"sku":"9780198819394","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_85ccc644-4165-4544-8200-93269cc389e6.jpg?v=1732380805","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-moonstone-9780198819394","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}