Moonstone - A Romance

"The Moonstone" is Wilkie Collins’ 1868 British epistolary novel. A young English woman called Rachel Verinder inherits a sizable Indian diamond from her uncle on her eighteenth birthday. The diamond is an object of considerable religious importance, the recovery of which is the object of three Hindu priests’ life-long mission. When the jewel is spotted on her person by an Indian Juggler, it is st...