The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins - 2019
Penguin Classics

By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Jessie Buckley, Richard Cordery, Julian Wadham, David Sturzaker & 7 more
Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 09-26-19
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Classics
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo

Publisher's Summary:

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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.

©1868 Wilkie Collins (P)2019 Penguin Audio


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