Analyse the ways in which Wilkie Collins constructs the narrative in 'The Moonstone'

Analyse the ways in which Wilkie Collins constructs the narrative in 'The Moonstone' During the period The Moonstone was written (in the late 1860's), detective novels were unheard of. This made Collins objective all the more challenging. He had set out to write a detective stories that would get people hooked for generations. To do this he constructed a very complex and in depth set of narratives that interact and play off each other. Unlike …

…opinion effects the book as a whole. <Tab/> <Tab/>Throughout the book the different narratives create different pictures of each character, I think this is very effective and makes the book a lot more interesting as it changes the way you feel about each character at different stages in the book. Overall I think the way Collins has written 'The Moonstone' is revolutionary to its time and