The Moonstone - Couverture souple

Collins, Wilkie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406913936 ISBN 13 : 9781406913934

Editeur : Hard Press, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Moonstone (1868) is generally considered the first detective novel written in the English language. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone alongside The Woman in White are considered Wilkie Collins' best novels. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. Rachel's eighteenth birthday is celebrated with a large party, whose guests include her cousin Franklin Blake. She wears the Moonstone on her dress that evening for all to see, including some Indian jugglers who have called at the house. Later that night, the diamond is stolen from Rachel's bedroom, and a period of turmoil, unhappiness, misunderstandings and ill-luck ensues. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. The Moonstone alongside The Woman in White are considered Wilkie Collins' best novels, both are still widely popular today still brilliant reads.

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Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script) thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins was edited for three audiences. The first includes Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script)-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL� or TOEIC� preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script) speakers enrolled in English-speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script) in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement� (AP�) or similar examinations. By using the Rosetta Edition( when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Ukrainian (Cyrillic Script) or English.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hard Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1406913936
• ISBN 13: 9781406913934
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 440