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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 1868 · Mystery & Detective
A sacred yellow diamond enters Rachel Verinder's Yorkshire home as an eighteenth-birthday gift and disappears before morning. Through the conflicting testimonies of servants, relatives, doctors, lawyers and Sergeant Cuff, Wilkie Collins turns a country-house theft into one of literature's foundational detective mysteries.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 17 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The witnesses and suspects of The Moonstone.
Rachel Verinder, the heiress who will not explain.
Franklin Blake, the traveller who brings the diamond home.
From Seringapatam to Yorkshire and London: the geographic world of The Moonstone.
The Verinder Estate
The evidence of The Moonstone: objects, places and unanswered connections.
Rachel Verinder beside the Indian cabinet on her eighteenth birthday.
The Moonstone is taken at Seringapatam.
This edition
- Title
- The Moonstone
- Author
- Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)
- First published
- 1868
- Illustrated plates
- 39 original artworks · 17 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 61 · about 195,107 words
- Reading time
- 13 h
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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