The Moonstone

By Wilkie Collins

Book Overview

With its high-interest adaptations of classic literature and plays, this series inspires reading success and further exploration for all students. These classics are skillfully adapted into concise,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822492202
• ISBN13: 9780822492207
• Release Date: January 1950
• Publisher: Fearon
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Go ahead and yawn; you will not miss anything.

I understood that The Moonstone is a classic, so I decided to read it to be culturally literate. Well, the storyline may be interesting, but the writing is atrocious. It is clunky, bloated, and seemingly pointless. The characters just keep rattling. A lot of writers fill in the story with descriptions of time and place to give an atmosphere to the story. This writer (Wilkie Collins) just fills it with unrelated trivia. Occasionally, I would go back a few pages to see what I must have missed. When I read again, there was nothing there to miss. Either Wilkie is extremely monotonous or other writing from this period is, and I am just now lucky enough to find out. I talked to others about this, and they said, "Now you know why Sherlock Holmes is so popular" (as an alternative which is much better written).