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The Moonstone de Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone: Macmillan Collector's Library

Autor Wilkie Collins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 mai 2018

O bijuterie sacră furată. O familie bântuită de un blestem străvechi. O dispariție imposibilă dintr-o cameră încuiată. Reținem aici miza psihologică zdrobitoare: onoarea unei tinere, Rachel Verinder, este pusă în pericol când diamantul primit la a optsprezecea aniversare dispare fără urmă. Tensiunea se instalează brusc. Descoperim o structură narativă ingenioasă, unde adevărul este fragmentat în relatări subiective, obligându-ne să jucăm rolul detectivului. Ritmul este dictat de urgența personajelor de a-și spăla numele, totul sub amenințarea celor trei păzitori brahmani care nu se vor opri de la nimic pentru a recupera piatra. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Charles Dickens, mentorul lui Collins, fără să fie o imitație — Collins elimină sentimentalismul victorian în favoarea unei precizii clinice în investigație. Remarcăm cum autorul rafinează temele identității și ale secretelor întunecate explorate anterior în The Woman in White. Spre deosebire de acea lucrare, aici accentul cade pe procedura detectivistică pură, prefigurând genul polițist modern. Organizarea volumului în ediția Collins Classics este remarcabilă: după narațiunea principală, cititorul găsește anexe fascinante care fac legătura între ficțiune și realitatea sângeroasă a epocii, precum cazul crimei de la Road-house din 1860.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781509850907
ISBN-10: 1509850902
Pagini: 688
Dimensiuni: 101 x 157 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New Edition
Editura: Pan Macmillan
Colecția Macmillan Collector's Library
Seria Macmillan Collector's Library

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum oricărui pasionat de mistere care dorește să descopere „originea speciilor” în literatura polițistă. Veți câștiga nu doar o lectură tensionată, ci și o perspectivă critică asupra epocii victoriene. Este ediția definitivă pentru colecționari, oferind context istoric și analize care transformă lectura într-o experiență completă de investigație literară.

Despre autor

Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) a fost un romancier și dramaturg englez de un succes răsunător în epoca sa, devenind la un moment dat cel mai bine plătit scriitor victorian. Prieten apropiat și colaborator al lui Charles Dickens, Collins a revoluționat literatura prin crearea „romanului de senzație”. Deși s-a luptat cu dependența de opiu cauzată de gută, creativitatea sa a lăsat moștenire structuri narative complexe și personaje memorabile. Este recunoscut universal ca părintele romanului polițist englez modern, reușind să îmbine critica socială cu suspansul psihologic într-o manieră care rămâne relevantă și astăzi.

Descriere scurtă

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Lady Verinder's uncle gives her the Moonstone - a magnificent diamond as large as an egg - for her eighteenth birthday, but it is not quite the generous gift it first seems. For he obtained it through bloody and nefarious means in India, and legend says the diamond's guardians will stop at nothing to get it back. When the Moonstone is stolen, an innocent man is accused of the crime and from this simple beginning, Wilkie Collins creates a stunning, complex narrative of dark mystery, suspense and atmosphere - and one of the very first detective stories ever written. One of the great Victorian novels, The Moonstone has engrossed, entertained and enraptured readers since its first publication in 1868. Featuring an introduction by the renowned historian, journalist and author, Judith Flanders.

Notă biografică

William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand before reading law as a student at Lincoln's Inn. However his real passion was for writing and, in 1850, he published his first novel, Antonina. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. An unconventional individual, he never married but established long-term liaisons with two separate partners. He died in 1889.

Recenzii

Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins’s classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s.
Collins’s story revolves around a diamond stolen from a Hindu holy place. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again. As the story unravels through multiple eyewitness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuff—with a face “sharp as a hatchet”—looks for the culprit.
One of Collins’s best-loved novels, with an exciting plot moved along by deftly-drawn characters and elegant pacing, The Moonstone was also turned into a play by Collins; the play appears as an appendix to this edition.

“This superbly edited and richly documented edition of what T.S. Eliot described as ‘the first and greatest of English detective novels’ is the definitive and indispensible edition of The Moonstone.” — William Baker, Northern Illinois University
“The Moonstone, one of Wilkie Collins’s most popular and successful novels, has never been out of print since its first publication in 1868. Is another edition needed? The answer, in the case of Professor Farmer’s scholarly and impeccably edited text, must be a resounding yes. Invaluable for his survey of past and present reactions to the story, and for his own insights, the edition also includes historical and background material and a well-chosen collection of relevant contemporary documents—always an important feature of Broadview Literary Texts. This Moonstone will surely prove another winner for Broadview’s list.” — Catherine Peters, author of The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins
“Steve Farmer’s Broadview edition will undoubtedly become the definitive edition of The Moonstone. [It] deserves a five star rating.” — The Wilkie Collins Society Journal
“Here is a book which anyone with an interest in either Collins or Victorian literature in general will want to buy. The chief reason for this is Broadview’s exceptionally generous editorial policy in its series of Literary Texts, and the very good use that Steve Farmer has made of this generosity. In this edition, for a reasonable price, we are given not only a beautifully printed and error-free annotated text of the novel, but also a full introduction and over 150 pages of appendices. … This is the first time that Collins’ dramatic adaptation of the novel has been reprinted and this text alone is well worth the price of the book.” — Adrian J. Pinnington, Waseda University, Wilkie Collins Society Journal

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
William Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Moonstone
Appendix A: Early Reviews of The Moonstone
  1. Geraldine Jewsbury, The Athenaeum (July 25, 1868)
  2. The Spectator (July 25, 1868)
  3. Nation (September 17, 1868)
  4. The Times (October 3, 1868)
  5. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (October 1868)
  6. Lippincott’s Magazine (December 1868)
Appendix B: Excerpts from Newspaper Accounts of the Constance Kent/Road-house Murder Case of 1860
  1. The Times (July 3, 1860 to October 2, 1865)
  2. The Sommerset and Wilts Journal (July 21, 1860)
Appendix C: Excerpts from The Times Accounts of the Major Murray/Northumberland Street Case of 1861
  1. The Times (July 13, 1861 to July 26, 1861)
Appendix D: Collins on Indians
  1. “A Sermon for Sepoys.” From Charles Dickens’s Household Words: A Weekly Journal (February 27, 1858)
Appendix E: Letters by Collins Concerning The Moonstone (the Novel and the Play)
Appendix F: The Moonstone (the Play)
Appendix G: Reviews of the Olympic Theatre Performance of Collins’s The Moonstone
  1. The Times (September 21, 1877)
  2. The Illustrated London News (September 22, 1877)
  3. The Athenaeum (September 22, 1877)
  4. The Spirit of the Times, New York (October 6, 1877)
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