The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins - 書籍 - Theophania Publishing - 9781770831483 - 2011年5月3日
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The Moonstone

A prolific playwright and novelist, William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) created his masterpiece, The Moonstone, at the age of 44. Even though it was not too enthusiastically received by such classics of his time as Dickens, the novel introduced a new genre of a detective story and is remarkable for its excellent plot-development as well as its finely moulded characters. It did and still does leave the reader breathless and puzzled to the very end. Some of the themes exploited in the novel ? for example, the British in India ? added to the success of the book. An important and not so frequent element of the story is the use of opium. This theme is particularly well developed since Collins (suffering from gout all his life) experienced the action of the substance (in the form of laudanum) on himself and went through a series of delusional episodes, firmly believing he was followed by his imaginary alter ego, ?Ghost Wilkie?.

メディア 書籍     Paperback Book   (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本)
リリース済み 2011年5月3日
ISBN13 9781770831483
出版社 Theophania Publishing
ページ数 654
寸法 150 × 33 × 226 mm   ·   861 g
言語 英語  

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