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The Moonstone

The Moonstone

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are widely considered to be Collins's best novels, and Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877, although the play was performed for only two months.


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“Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.”

Wilkie Collins book The Moonstone

[Street, 1868] ( p. 86 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA82) <br class="br">Also in Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century https://books.google.com/books?id=E2S3nWp-lAgC&amp;pg=PT61 by Leonard Sweet [Zondervan, 2009, ISBN 0-310-83380-9] <br class="br">Source: The Moonstone (1868)

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“We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.”

Wilkie Collins book The Moonstone

Also in Recipes from an Edwardian Country House: A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes by Laura Schaefer [Simon &amp; Schuster, 2013, ISBN 1-476-73033-4] ( p. 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=zZPzAQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA22) <br class="br">Source: The Moonstone [Street, 1868] ( p. 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA49).

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“Rosanna Spearman had been a thief, and not being of the sort that get up Companies in the City, and rob from thousands, instead of only robbing from one, the law laid hold of her, and the prison and the reformatory followed the lead of the law.”

Wilkie Collins book The Moonstone

[Street, 1868] ( p. 54 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA18) <br class="br">Also in Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England by Anne Schwan [University of New Hampshire Press, 2014, ISBN 1611686725] ( p. 82 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA82) <br class="br">The Moonstone (1868)

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“Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.”

Wilkie Collins book The Moonstone

[Street, 1868] ( p. 50 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA50) <br class="br">Also in Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England by Albert D. Pionke [Ohio State University Press, 2004, 0-814-20948-3] ( p. 98 https://books.google.com/books?id=OH6ml-qUK7sC&amp;pg=PA98) <br class="br">The Moonstone (1868)

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