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Folio Fiction Discussion Group: The Moonstone

Wed, May 11

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Online Via Zoom

Our members Fiction Discussion Group meets on the second Wednesday of the month.

Folio Fiction Discussion Group: The Moonstone
Folio Fiction Discussion Group: The Moonstone

Time & Location

May 11, 2022, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT

Online Via Zoom

About the Event

Folio's Fiction book discussion group features a list of classic fiction, curated and led by Folio Librarian Lillian Dabney.

Order a copy of The Moonstone By Wilkie Collin on Folio's Bookshop >>

The 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, The Moonstone 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.

Sandra Kemp's introduction examines The Moonstone 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.

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