The Moonstone

The MoonstoneWilkie Collins The Moonstone, a masterpiece of detective fiction by the inventor of the genre, is, in the words of Dorothy Sayers, probably the very finest detective story ever written. No less demanding a reader than T. S. Eliot called it the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels, taking pains to remind us that the genre was invented by Collins and not by Poe. The Moonstone was first published in 1868, as a serial in

Wiley was born October 21

was unknown when he submitted an unsolicited manuscript to the Arion Press

“there is the virtuosity of the language

David Littlejohn

Sometimes he uses his arm-chair as a conveyance

is one of the most handsome publications ever produced in the United States

He is on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley

The entire painting is reproduced at the end of the poem

Diebenkorn was familiar with the Wallace Stevens selection by Vendler for Arion Press

that are reproduced in the first edition of the book

and could have followed further along unfinished side-roads it began to explore

Time offers neither the nourishing source