![]() ![]() So when I came across a copy of The Moonstone recently in a used bookstore, I picked it up at once - but surreptitiously. I devoured it in a day, and thought back on it with pleasure over the years. And enough twists and turns to keep a reader on tenterhooks until a highly satisfying ending is delivered. A young, beautiful, rich and courageous heroine (who in my mind looked very like me). Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. ![]() The Moonstone was all I could have hoped for. I loved the Classics Illustrated series (the graphic novels of my youth that simplified famous novels for children), presenting us with swashbuckling plotlines, and heroes and villains that were unmistakably, unashamedly, what they were supposed to be. I was about 12 when I first encountered The Moonstone - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. ![]() How?Ĭhitra Banerjee Divakaruni's latest book is Oleander Girl. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Moonstone Author Wilkie Collins ![]()
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