{"product_id":"the-moonstone-9780140434088","title":"The Moonstone","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as \"the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvellously taut and intricate tale of mystery, in which facts and memory can prove treacherous and not everyone is as they first appear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSandra Kemp's introduction examines \u003ci\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/i\u003e as a work of Victorian sensation fiction and an early example of the detective genre, and discusses the technique of multiple narrators, the role of opium, and Collins's sources and autobiographical references.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140434088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.78h x 5.14w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/25\/2011 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e11597 \/ Moonstone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.6 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wilkie Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36634774306972,"sku":"9780140434088","price":9.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d0f29eb9-87c3-4a1e-ad32-fc98b015900e.jpg?v=1603837614","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-moonstone-9780140434088","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}