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Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 6138 160 1044477 book 1868 The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics) total:3671|5:1023|4:1505|3:896|2:197|1:50| 3671 14267 5543 530 4012 3.94 10598 1777 29304374 446464 6140 0140620133 9780140620139 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555234m/6140.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555234s/6140.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6140.The_Moonstone 3.96 121 1868 5 10 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...]]> 45055787 1874239 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.88 3040
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 5 5 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...]]> 17663593 84023 6139 0486424510 9780486424514 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555234m/6139.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555234s/6139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6139.The_Moonstone 3.72 54 1868 4 5 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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The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel’s household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels’, The Moonstone is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear.

Sandra Kemp’s introduction examines The Moonstone as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins’s sources and autobiographical references.

Introduction by Catherine Peters]]> 1868 3 5 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 23:12:32 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 22:23:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 48051429 54041 3151994 0199536724 9780199536726 5 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/31/994/3151994-m-1255845479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/31/994/3151994-s-1255845479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3151994.The_Moonstone 4.00 16 Witnesses, suspects, and detectives each narrate the story in turn. The bemused butler, the love-stricken housemaid, the enigmatic detective Sergeant Cuff, the drug-addicted scientist--each speculate on the mystery as Collins weaves their narratives together. The Moonstone transcends the genre of detective novel or murder mystery, though, and this new edition features a fascinating introduction by John Sutherland which discusses the themes of imperialism, sensationalism and mesmerism.]]> 1868 4 1 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 17:16:34 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 17:23:13 -0800 2009
The Moonstone is considered a classic, and because Collins was a con...more...]]> 46054035 36042 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 3 1 false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 12:30:05 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 12:07:26 -0800 2009
Credited as being the first detective novel, the story of the lost Moonstone, an Indian religious treasure stolen by a...more...]]> 38701081 970517 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 4 1 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...]]> 23534990 1187679 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 4 1 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...]]> 20567197 1048045 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 4 2 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...]]> 19479738 963507 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 5 1 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...]]> 7939201 561020 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 5 2 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...]]> 31696091 63076 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 0 2 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...]]> 47529116 2000857 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 5 1 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 46646687 2042021 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 5 0 false Tue Feb 17 10:55:44 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 10:55:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 46443655 1133758 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 3 0 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...]]> 39253126 988487 907216 0192833383 9780192833389 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179352428m/907216.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179352428s/907216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/907216.The_Moonstone 4.02 48 'the first and greatest of English detective novels' T.S.Eliot

A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one is what they seem, and nothing can be taken for granted. Witnesses, suspects, and detectives take up the story in turn. The bemused butler, the love-stricken housemaid, the enigmatic detective Sergeant Cuff, the drug-addicted scientist, each speculate on the mystery as Collins weaves their narratives into a masterpiece of construction and suspense. But The Moonstone is more than just a detective novel or a murder mystery and this new edition features a fascinating introduction by John Sutherland which discusses the themes of Imperialism, Sensationalism and Mesmerism and the way in which they operate in the novel and within its cultural context.]]> 1868 5 0 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...]]> 38719482 1517410 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 0 0 false Wed Nov 26 16:43:42 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 16:50:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 79581428 111921 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 3 2 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 01 17:55:47 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 18:08:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 76229510 1068292 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 5 0 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...]]> 57621227 2319830 6138 0375757856 9780375757853 409 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone 3.89 3671
Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–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.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.]]> 1868 3 0 false Thu May 28 10:10:54 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 10:17:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6138