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The Moonstone
''The Moonstone'' (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the ''first detective novel in the English language''. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine ''All the Year Round''. ''The Moonstone'' and ''The Woman in White'' are considered Wilkie Collins' best novels. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, ''The Moonstone'' also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel. Collins adapted ''The Moonstone'' for the stage in 1877, but the production was performed for only two months.
==Etymology==
The Moonstone of the title is a diamond (not to be confused with the semi-precious moonstone gem). It gained its name from its association with the Hindu god of the moon, Chandra. Originally set in the forehead of a sacred statue of the god at Somnath, and later at Benares, it was said to be protected by hereditary guardians on the orders of Vishnu, and to wax and wane in brilliance along with the light of the moon.
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