John Sutherland
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At a private asylum in the west of England there lives and has lived for some years past, an unfortunate lady as to whom there has long since ceased to be any hope that she should ever live elsewhere. Indeed there is no one else belonging to her by whom the indulgence of such a hope on her behalf could be cherished. Friends she has none and her condition is such that she recks nothing of confinement and does not even sigh for release. And yet her...
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The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White, to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first English detective novel. Many of the standard ground rules for detective fiction can be found in this work, as well as examples of Collins' forward-thinking approach to the treatment of Indians and servants.
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