The Moonstone: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Moonstone, credited to Wilkie Collins, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins. The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre: a large number of suspects, red herrings, a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'local bungler' and the skilled, professional, Scotland Yard detective. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Moonstone
• Author credits: Wilkie Collins
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 20:08:55

Catalogue topics

• detective novel
• mystery
• scotland yard
• fiction
• audio book

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 00 - Prologue — 14:25
2. 01 - First Period: Chapter I — 6:25
3. 02 - First Period: Chapter II — 11:07
4. 03 - First Period: Chapter III — 16:38
5. 04 - First Period: Chapter IV — 20:58
6. 05 - First Period: Chapter V — 18:19
7. 06 - First Period: Chapter VI — 25:15
8. 07 - First Period: Chapter VII — 9:55
9. 08 - First Period: Chapter VIII — 27:45
10. 09 - First Period: Chapter IX — 15:30
11. 10 - First Period: Chapter X — 27:04
12. 11 - First Period: Chapter XI — 53:29
13. 12 - First Period: Chapter XII — 28:42
14. 13 - First Period: Chapter XIII — 16:54
15. 14 - First Period: Chapter XIV — 18:26
16. 15 - First Period: Chapter XV — 29:27
17. 16 - First Period: Chapter XVI — 18:58
18. 17 - First Period: Chapter XVII — 14:11
19. 18 - First Period: Chapter XVIII — 14:25
20. 19 - First Period: Chapter IXX — 10:25
21. 20 - First Period: Chapter XX — 8:48
22. 21 - First Period: Chapter XXI — 27:43
23. 22 - First Period: Chapter XXII — 22:47
24. 23 - First Period: Chapter XXIII — 30:06

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