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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.
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.
The witnesses and suspects of The Moonstone.
Rachel Verinder, the heiress who will not explain.
Franklin Blake, the traveller who brings the diamond home.
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.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #155
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