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Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone: "Your tears come easy, whe...

Collins, Wilkie
Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone: "Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving
The Moonstone (1868) is Wilkie Collins's second masterpiece, the first being The Woman in White published almost a decade earlier. While both books are often classified as Gothic novels and mystery novels, The Moonstone is also reckoned to be the first detective novel of the English tongue. As long as narration is concerned, Collins makes use of the epistolary style to create even more suspense. The story is about a precious stone brought to B...

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Rudyard Kipling's Kim: "There is no sin so great as ignor...

Kipling, Rudyard
Rudyard Kipling's Kim: "There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this."
Kim (1901) is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, a Nobel-Prize winning English writer who was born in India and whose novels often deal with Indian themes. The eponymous protagonist in Kim is the impecunious orphan of an Irish soldier who finds himself in the streets of the Indian city of Lahore in the late nineteenth century after having lost both parents. Kim gradually becomes completely integrated in the Indian society with the only obstacle being...

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