The Moonstone
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3.1 • 9 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
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.
(c) 1868, Wilkie Collins (P) 2019 Penguin Audio
Customer Reviews
Excellent recording
First a warning -Do not listen to the preview! - it’s an introduction to the book that is not the voice of any of the narrators and gives key plot points (though don’t worry if you did listen- it doesn’t give away as much as it seems).
The book itself is a wonderful recording. Different sections of the book are from the perspective of different characters and these are voiced by different actors - all wonderful.
The story is an excellent whodunnit sometimes longwinded (it’s a Victorian novel) much more humorous than I expected. Expect to raise an eyebrow here and there at descriptions of anywhere other than England- nonetheless well worth a listen.
Furious!
I’ve just listened to the preview of this Audio book with a view to purchasing . The preview narrator immediately told me who the culprit is!!! Why????
Obviously I won’t bother buying it now.