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02498cam a2200385 a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20220523154849.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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920320s1992 nyu b 000 1 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
92052918 |
| 013 ## - PATENT CONTROL INFORMATION |
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| Copyright Date |
1954 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
823/.8 |
| Edition number |
20 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Author |
Wilkie Collins |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Moonstone |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
UK |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Longmans, Green and Co. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1961 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
UK |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of London Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1954 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Pages |
284 |
| Size |
20 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Pages |
192 |
| Size |
19 |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Series Title |
Longmans' Abridged Books |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Series Title |
The Pilot Books |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Edited and Abridged |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone" is generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language. The Moonstone, a large and valuable, yellow diamond, plundered from an Indian temple by Colonel Herncastle during the Siege of Seringapatam, is rumored to bring bad luck to its owner. The Colonel bequeathes the diamond to his niece Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. At her birthday party, Rachel wears the Moonstone for all to see, later that night the priceless stone is stolen again and an investigation ensues to discover the identity of the thief and recover the jewel. When Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels," and described by G. K. Chesterton as "probably the best detective tale in the world," "The Moonstone" is one of Wilkie Collins's most popular works which influenced the development of an entirely new genre of fiction. The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. |
| 630 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Language of a work |
English |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject |
General |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject |
Jewelry theft |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject |
Police |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject |
East Indians |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Subject |
Moonstones |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Additional author |
Anthea Beamish |
| Relator term |
ed. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Item type |
Book |
