Book
The Moonstone
- Published
- 1868
- Genre
- Fiction
- Pages
- 528
- Words
- 192897
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.6
- Lexile
- 710L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 15–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 10 onwards · ages 15–18
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
The Moonstone is a page-turner, writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780140434088
- ISBN-10
- 0140434089
Tags
ClassicsMysteries-Lost ItemsMysteries-Who-dun-itMysteryRomanceTheft