-The Moonstone is a beautiful yellow diamond that was stolen from the statue of a Moon god in India. When Franklin Blake brings it to Rachel Verinder's house in Yorkshire for her birthday, it brings bad luck with it. How many people will the Moonstone hurt?
On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives a very special present: the Moonstone – a large yellow diamond from India: but that night the Moonstone is stolen… In what T. S. Eliot called ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern detective novels’, Wilkie Collins tells a story full of mystery, suspense and psychological insight. ide ranges of activities practising the four skills. FCE-style activities. Trinity-style activities (Grade 7). Dossier: Imperialsm on the Indian Subcontinent. Internet projects.
Out of the depths of time ... out of mysterious India comes the Moonstone worshipped by the Hindus and bearing for the white man the death curse of the great god Vishnu.
Classic / British English The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder's uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday present, but that same night it is stolen The Moonstone is now seen as the first, and one of the best, English detective novels
The Moonstone is a large diamond. It carries with it a curse on anyone who owns it. Little surprise, then, that when it is stolen, no one seems keen to find the thief. Only Sergeant Cuff is able to piece together the parts of this strange puzzle
