Name: La Piedra Lunar (in Spanish)
SKU: 46458232
Price: 377.00 ZAR
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Author: Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9788420698816

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Physical Book

Author

Wilkie Collins

Publisher

Alianza Editorial

Synopsis "La Piedra Lunar (in Spanish)"

Encuadernación: RústicaEl día de su decimoctavo cumpleaños Rachel Verinder recibe el diamante sagrado hindú conocido como "La Piedra Lunar", que su difunto tío le ha legado en su testamento y que se supone que él robó en la India. Esa misma noche la valiosa joya desaparece de la mansión. En torno al misterio del robo se va urdiendo un fascinante relato que van narrando varios de los personajes, entre los que destacan el sardónico mayordomo Gabriel Betteredge, y la señorita Clack, puritana solterona. "La Piedra Lunar" es una novela llena de intriga e ironía en la que nada ni nadie es lo que parece.

Wilkie Collins

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(London 1824-1889) Playwright, novelist, and prolific short story writer. At 17, he started working at a tea trading company while writing Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was (Gothic no. 32), a work that was not published until over a century after his death. He studied Law and, although he never practiced, he did use his legal knowledge in many of his works, and critics consider him one of the fathers of the detective genre. In 1851, he met Charles Dickens, with whom he formed a deep friendship and published his main works in his weekly All the Year Around. After Dickens' death in 1870, his popularity waned. He suffered from rheumatic gout which eventually led to an opium addiction. His tombstone epitaph highlights him as the author of the novel The Woman in White.

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