The story begins with the physical possession of the Moonstone (by Colonel John Herncastle), this happen as the British were fighting in Seringapatam, India, where Herncastle cowardly commits murder to gain possession of the diamond.

A series of pictures revealing the real origin of a Moonstone which is really a common mineral named adularia because it was mined in Mt Adularia, in Swizerland. It is a feldspar with pearly and opal looking rocks. It has been revered for thousands…

Differerent book covers of the Moonstone

A 2005 rendition of Dickens's Oliver Twist

This is the movie cover for the 2005 rendition of Dickens's Oliver Twist.

This is a photo of the famous Charles Dickens.

This item consists of an argumentative essay that I used to aid my own argumentative Victorian research essay. In this essay, Andrews talks about how Dickens is responsible for shaping the views of many social workers via his fictional narratives.…

This video tells about Charles Dickens and his childhood growing up in a debtor's prison. This video captures a bit of the adversity that Dickens underwent as a youth.

This is an image of the cover of "The Shivering Sands," a romantic suspense novel by Victoria Holt, first published in 1969. The depiction's solitary, vulnerable female figure seems reminiscent of Collins' Rosanna Spearman.

Holt is known to have…

A picture of the Shivering Sands' WWII anti-aircraft bunkers.

Note the anthropomorphic, steampunk-esque architectural style. In some sense, these figures retain the haunting, gothic elements of Collins' Shivering Sand.