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The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

Start date: May 1, 2015

Finish date: May 31, 2015

Why we're reading this: May 2015 Old School Classics Group Read
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May 01, 2024 Renate rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: bookclub, fiction, crime, classics

Loved it! Quintessentially English and Victorian:- Melodrama, long-winded, some hocus-pocus elements in the plot, but still immensely readable today. An absolute treat. It did sag a bit towards the end but by then I'd chuckled my way through the first half and the 5 stars were firmly awarded.

This novel is often credited with being the first detective novel in English. But according to the foreword of my Oxford World Classics edition, it was not the first. Rather, it introduced the standard featu ...more

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Nov 19, 2016 Roxane rated it really liked it

Shelves: owned

This book was a delight to read. I am not one who enjoys mysteries nor books with a lot of dialogue, but this book has been the exception. I enjoyed the mystery itself which was much like Agatha Christy. I also liked the unreliable narrators taking turns telling the story. But I think what I enjoyed the most was the sense of humor and the names of the characters; Betteredge, Godfrey Ablewhite, Mr. Candy (the doctor), Miss Clack, and Gooseberry. I found myself laughing out loud throughout the boo ...more

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