Read The Moonstone in Englishwith every sentence explained

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins was first published in 1868. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked advanced and filed under historical fiction, mystery and crime and romance.

A cursed diamond. A house full of suspects. A family torn apart.

On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the Moonstone, a huge yellow diamond looted from a sacred Indian shrine. By morning, the priceless gem has vanished from her Yorkshire home.

Suspicion spreads like poison, threatening the reputations of everyone in the house, from the family's trusted servants to Rachel's own suitors. Two years later, the people who were there each write down what they saw, piece by piece, to explain an impossible crime.

Often called the first great detective novel in English, Wilkie Collins's masterpiece weaves together many voices, from the old butler Gabriel Betteredge, who swears by Robinson Crusoe, to the famous Sergeant Cuff. The Moonstone is a gripping story of obsession, betrayal and the long shadow of the past.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate English book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.