Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder that inspired the hugely popular modern detective genre. The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is stolen and no-one is above suspicion as the peculiar Sergeant Cuff pieces together a puzzling series of events. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. The Classics Illustrated comic book series began in 1941 with its first issue, Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, and has since included over 200 classic tales released around the world. This new Paperback Replica edition is part of a continuing effort to make Classics Illustrated available to all, be they young readers just beginning their journeys into the great world of classic literature, or collectors who have fond memories of this much loved comic book series.

A través de la mirada de una genial narradora, madame Pratolungo, republicana ar-diente que una vez vivió sólo para «el sagrado deber de derrocar tiranos» y ahora se ve en la necesidad de contratarse como profesora de piano y dama de compañía, La pobre señorita Finch (1871-1872) cuenta la historia de una joven ciega, «tan franca como intrépida», que, en el trance de recuperar la vista, se encuentra en el centro de una red de mentiras piadosas y engaños malignos tejida por los dos hermanos gemelos que es-tán enamorados de ella. Intrigas, conspiraciones y un tremendo «laberinto de mentiras» ponen a prueba la fidelidad y la entereza de una mujer que, acostumbrada a tener la vista «en las yemas de sus dedos», y abocada ahora a un tortuoso desequilibrio entre la visión y el sentimiento, acaba renegando del don que gracias a la medicina ha recobra-do. En esta novela, Wilkie Collins explora anticipadamente algunos de los hallazgos de la moderna psicología de la percepción, a la vez que construye una historia de amor y rivalidad sumamente anómala y compleja, que mezcla inusitadamente su talento para el realismo doméstico con la irreal atmósfera de los cuentos de hadas. La novela es además una cumplida y muy collinsiana lección narrativa sobre la culpabilidad y la incoherencia de un punto de vista que busca, pese a todo, la exactitud.

Este ebook presenta "La piedra lunar" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. La piedra lunar (The Moonstone) es una novela del siglo XIX escrita por Wilkie Collins durante el año 1868. Se la considera generalmente como la primera novela policial o detectivesca de Inglaterra. La piedra Lunar, valiosa joya robada de un santuario hindú y de la que se cuentan toda clase de leyendas maléficas, llega a las manos de Raquel Verinder, heredera de un lord inglés, como regalo de cumpleaños, pero después de la cena de celebración con varios invitados la joya desaparece. El sargento Cuff es el encargado de la investigación y deberá descubrir la verdad a través de las diferentes versiones de los hechos que ofrece cada uno de los personajes implicados. William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) fue un novelista, dramaturgo y autor de relatos cortos inglés. Fue muy popular en su tiempo, dejando escritas 27 novelas, más de 60 relatos cortos, al menos 14 obras de teatro y más de 100 obras de no ficción. Es considerado uno de los creadores del género de novela policíaca, a través de una narrativa caracterizada por la atmósfera de misterio y fantasía, el suspense melodramático y el relato minucioso.

On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verindet inherits a large diamond, which her uncle got in India. She wears it to her birthday party, but the morning after it is gone from her room. There are several suspects – the Indian jugglers, one of the maidservants, and even Rachel herself. Only after much work does Rachel’s cousin Franklin Blake manage to bring some clarity to the murky situation. The Moonstone introduced the detective genre to elements that readers today think of as inherent to it, such as red herrings and a reconstruction of the crime. It is foundational to the genre and has been called one of the best detective stories of all time. WILKIE COLLINS [1824-1889] was an English author. He was a close friend of Charles Dickens, and the two collaborated on several occasions, writing plays and short stories together. Collins is best known for the novels The Woman in White andThe Moonstone, with the latter considered one of the first English-language detective novels.

A classic collaboration between two literary giants, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners is a gripping adventure story filled with murder, intrigue, and strong female characters Following on from the success of The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Hesperus presents another collaboration from close friends and literary giants, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Their legendary friendship resulted in a number of joint literary ventures, in this case Collins wrote the second chapter under Dickens' supervision. Inspired by events of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, but wishing to distance himself from the context of India itself, Dickens chose to set his novella in Central America. This adventure story takes place on an island near the English colony of Belize, where a silver mine is overrun by pirates, who in turn murder a number of English colonists and take the remaining prisoner. In the diverting narrative that follows, the initiative of intrepid women prisoners enables the captives to escape.

Este ebook presenta "La piedra lunar (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. La piedra lunar (The Moonstone) es una novela del siglo XIX escrita por Wilkie Collins durante el año 1868. Se la considera generalmente como la primera novela policial o detectivesca de Inglaterra. La piedra Lunar, valiosa joya robada de un santuario hindú y de la que se cuentan toda clase de leyendas maléficas, llega a las manos de Raquel Verinder, heredera de un lord inglés, como regalo de cumpleaños, pero después de la cena de celebración con varios invitados la joya desaparece. El sargento Cuff es el encargado de la investigación y deberá descubrir la verdad a través de las diferentes versiones de los hechos que ofrece cada uno de los personajes implicados. William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) fue un novelista, dramaturgo y autor de relatos cortos inglés. Fue muy popular en su tiempo, dejando escritas 27 novelas, más de 60 relatos cortos, al menos 14 obras de teatro y más de 100 obras de no ficción. Es considerado uno de los creadores del género de novela policíaca, a través de una narrativa caracterizada por la atmósfera de misterio y fantasía, el suspense melodramático y el relato minucioso.

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Armadale by Wilkie Collins - is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of his four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859–60) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868). Plot summary: In the German spa town of Wildbad, the 'Scotchman' Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale; his story concerns his murder of the man he had disinherited (also called Allan Armadale), who had subsequently married the woman he was betrothed to under false pretensions. Under Allan's instructions, the confession is left to be opened by his son once he comes of age. Nineteen years later, the son of the murdered man, also Allan Armadale, rescues a man of his own age, Ozias Midwinter. The stranger reveals himself to Reverend Decimus Brock, a friend of Allan through his late mother, as another Allan Armadale (the son of the man who committed the murder). Ozias tells Decimus of his desperate upbringing, having run away from his mother and stepfather (Mr. Neal). The Reverend promises not to disclose their relation to one another, and the young men become close companions. Ozias remains haunted by a fear that he will harm Allan as a result of their proximity, a fate warned of in his father's letter; this feeling intensifies when the pair spend a night on a shipwreck off the Isle of Man—as it turns out, the very ship on which the murder was committed. Also on the vessel, Allan has a mysterious dream involving three characters; Ozias believes that the events are a prophecy of the future. Three members of Allan's family die in mysterious circumstances, one of which was instigated with the rescue of a woman who attempted to commit suicide by drowning. As a result, Allan inherits the estate of Thorpe-Ambrose in Norfolk and relocates there with Ozias, intending to make him steward. Once there he falls in love with Eleanor (Neelie) Milroy, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Major Milroy, to whom he has rented a cottage. During this time, correspondence takes place between Maria Oldershaw and Lydia Gwilt concerning the latter's ambitions to marry Allan as a means of achieving retribution for his family's apparent wrongdoings (she was originally a maid in the service of his mother).