The Moonstone (1868) - Wilkie Collins

Category: Classic, Literature, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: Penguin Classic Victorian Classic

Written by Wilkie Collins
Read by Jessie Buckley, Richard Cordery, Julian Wadham, David Sturzaker, Hugh Fraser, Bruce Alexander, Oscar Batterham, Matthew Spencer, James MacCallum, Stewart Clarke, Jot Davies, Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The Moonstone: Penguin Classics
By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Jessie Buckley, Richard Cordery, Julian Wadham, David Sturzaker, Hugh Fraser, Bruce Alexander, Oscar Batterham, Matthew Spencer, James MacCallum, Stewart Clarke, Jot Davies
Release date
26-09-2019
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
21 hrs and 31 mins
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Categories
Literature & Fiction

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Jessie Buckley, Richard Cordery, Julian Wadham, David Sturzaker, Hugh Fraser, Bruce Alexander, Oscar Batterham, Matthew Spencer, James MacCallum, Stewart Clarke and Jot Davies. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Sandra Kemp.

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 the Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand. T. S. Eliot famously described THE MOONSTONE as ‘the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels’, but, as Sandra Kemp discusses in her introduction, it offers many other facets, which reveal Collins’s sensibilities as untypical of his era.

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