| The Moonstone Contributor(s): Collins, Wilkie (Author), Kemp, Sandra (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0140434089 ISBN-13: 9780140434088 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1999 Annotation: The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday her friend and suitor, Franklin Blake, brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff and Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 710 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.14" W x 7.78" (0.81 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 11597 Reading Level: 7.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 34.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else. 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. |