false 6138 155 "The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins&#8217;s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre&#8211;the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.<br><br>This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition. 1044477 book 1868 The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) total:3554|5:991|4:1460|3:868|2:187|1:48| 3554 13821 5350 519 5 10 false false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 07:56:23 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 12:17:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 12:14:41 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 04:49:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 5 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 07:38:09 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 10:09:51 -0700 2008
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Credited as being the first detective novel, the story of the lost Moonstone, an Indian religious treasure stolen by a...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 11:35:03 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 17:29:55 -0800 2009
I have read The Woman in White and I'll be honest -- I wasn't so impressed. I skimmed parts of the middle section, I admit, but my overall impression was of Gothic cliches, an unlikeable hero and heroine, and a soppy romance. But I've heard The Moonstone mentioned as the fir...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jun 02 12:50:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 10:31:34 -0700 2008 The Moonstone does not disappoint for strong narrative or intriguing characters. The novel is essentially epistolary, with four or five main characters all recording their knowledge of the famous eponymous, stolen from India by a Britis...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 20 06:25:14 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 06:25:39 -0700 2008 The Moonstone, published in 1868, occupies an important place in the history of the crime novel. Wilkie Collins certainly didn’t the invent the detective story, but he was one of its earliest exponents and the huge success of his “sensation novels” such as The Woman in White and The Moonstone...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 17:17:38 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 05:33:34 -0700 2008
The Moonstone is a detective novel with somewhere around eleven detectives--each piecing together their own small part and only ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 10:06:42 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 10:06:42 -0700 2007 Okay, I'm going to go out there with that five star rating just to motivate everyone who might possibly want to read a mid 19th century novel to GO READ THIS NOVEL, like, now, rather than sort of, y'know, someday, which is when I myself usually read mid-19th century novels that aren't actually...more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 21:20:49 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 12:04:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 27 17:54:18 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 15:19:04 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 17:54:18 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Feb 17 10:55:44 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 10:55:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 15 14:44:14 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 15:37:32 -0800 2009 The Moonstone remains a moderately entertaining read after 140 years and after countless innovations in the genre. Though it is an elaborate tale of intrigue and spectac...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 19:59:46 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 19:59:46 -0800 2008 The Moonstone reminds me that so much of what seems essential to our modern age was foreshadowed by the Victorians. The spark for the whole mystery, the spectacular diamond called the Moonstone, raises questions about foreign intervention across the seas, while the solution to the disappearance of t...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Nov 26 16:43:42 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 16:50:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 12:57:48 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:00:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 28 10:10:54 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 10:17:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 07:05:45 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 09:16:31 -0700 2009
The Moonstone concerns the theft of the diamond by that name, a theft that occurred the night of lady Rachel Ver...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6138