The Moonstone

The classic novel by Wilkie Collins, the famous Victorian detective "The Moonstone" is known to Russian-speaking readers in the translation by Marietta Shaginyan, published in the mid-20th century. Shaginyan revised the existing Russian translation of the novel from the late 19th century and restored many omitted passages while preserving certain cuts and reworking the syntax. "Rhino" presents to readers a new and long-awaited translation by Alexander Livergant, the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Foreign Literature", who has worked at different times on the works of Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, and others. This is the first complete translation of "The Moonstone", and it returns to the text the richness and complexity of the Victorian style, pushing it beyond the established Soviet and post-Soviet tradition of perceiving "The Stone" as a "book for older school-age children".