Contributions

  • Sandra Kemp (Editor) - Contributor

Publication

1999-06-01 - Penguin Classics

Language

English

Word Count

132,000 words, Guess

Page Count

528 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivemoonstonepenguin00wilk
  • ISBN-100140434089
  • ISBN-139780140434088
  • Goodreads867638
  • LibraryThing30888
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  • Better World Books9780140434088
  • Open LibraryOL7354851M

Classifications

  • LCCPR4494
  • DDC891.73

Description

One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.

First Sentence

In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strenght to go through with it.'

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Series Statement

  • Penguin Classics

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