Now, as we all know, Wilie Collins was not an Albertan--but Broadview Press, which released this edition of The Moonstone and donated this copy to the Bloody Words promotion, is an Alberta publisher. Steve Farmer, the editor, is in the English Department at Arizona State.
The Broadview edition of The Moonstone got rave reviews for the commentary and supporting materials that Steve Farmer provided. The annotation of the text has been applauded, as has the inclusion of the full text of Collins' dramatic adaptation of the novel. A reader who wants to delve deeply into this novel will certainly find the commentary and the appendices to be enormously useful.
Broadview offers a number of classic mysteries, all with the commentaries and supporting materials that help the reader to full understand the novels in their own context. Other works in this series include Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles; and Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White.
Anne Jayne
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