The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins In one moment every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop There as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth stood the figure of a solitary Woman dressed from head to foot in white The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright s eerie encounter on a moonlit London road Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming friend Count Fosco who has a taste for white mice vanilla bonbons and poison Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism The Penguin English Library 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

Wilkie Collins tarafından kaleme alınan The Moonstone Platanus Publishing eseri olarak okurlarla buluşuyor The Moonstone Wilkie Collins Kitap Özeti I would have given something to have waited at table that day But in my position in the household waiting at dinner except on high family festivals was letting down my dignity in the eyes of the other servants a thing which my lady considered me quite prone enough to do already without seeking occasions for it The news brought to me from the upper regions that evening came from Penelope and the footman Penelope mentioned that she had never known Miss Rachel so particular about the dressing of her hair and had never seen her look so bright and pretty as she did when she went down to meet Mr Franklin in the drawing room The footman s report was that the preservation of a respectful composure in the presence of his betters and the waiting on Mr Franklin Blake at dinner were two of the hardest things to reconcile with each other that had ever tried his training in service Later in the evening we heard them singing and playing duets Mr Franklin piping high Miss Rachel piping higher and my lady on the piano following them as it were over hedge and ditch and seeing them safe through it in a manner most wonderful and pleasant to hear through the open windows on the terrace at night Yayınevi Platanus Publishing Yazar Wilkie Collins Sayfa 548 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 14 00x21 00 cm Basım Yılı Nisan 2020 Barkod 9786257068338 Kategori Edebiyat Kitapları Yabancı Dilde Kitaplar Roman

I would have given something to have waited at table that day But in my position in the household waiting at dinner except on high family festivals was letting down my dignity in the eyes of the other servants a thing which my lady considered me quite prone enough to do already without seeking occasions for it The news brought to me from the upper regions that evening came from Penelope and the footman Penelope mentioned that she had never known Miss Rachel so particular about the dressing of her hair and had never seen her look so bright and pretty as she did when she went down to meet Mr Franklin in the drawing room The footmans report was that the preservation of a respectful composure in the presence of his betters and the waiting on Mr Franklin Blake at dinner were two of the hardest things to reconcile with each other that had ever tried his training in service Later in the evening we heard them singing and playing duets Mr Franklin piping high Miss Rachel piping higher and my lady on the piano following them as it were over hedge and ditch and seeing them safe through it in a manner most wonderful and pleasant to hear through the open windows on the terrace at night

A celebrated Indian yellow 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 Wilkie Collins gives to each of his narratorsa household servant a detective a lawyer a cloth eared Evangelical a dying medical manvibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves One of the great triumphs of nineteenth century sensation fiction The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more not less inexplicable Collinss novel of addictions is itself addictive moving through a sequence of startling revelations towards the final disclosure of the truth Entranced with double lives with men and women who only know part of the story Collins weaves their narratives into a web of suspense The Moonstone is a text that grows imaginatively out of the secrets that the unconventional Collins was obliged to keep as he wrote the novel