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In a moment, we're going to bring you the second episode of World's Great Novels adaptation of the Moonstone.

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Well, now, from April 9th, 1948, here is

World's Great Novels

with Part 2 of the Moonstone.

The World's Great Novels.

In the middle of the 19th century, Wilkie Collins, along with his famous contemporary Charles Dickens, exercised a strong influence on the literature of his day.

His most famous work, the Moonstone, is still regarded as a classic in detective fiction.

But Wilkie Collins was one of the very first to develop the technique of mystifying the reader by deft manipulation of situation and effect.

The National Broadcasting Company presents the second episode in its three-part dramatization of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

Another in the series of books that live, the world's great novels.

When first I saw the Moonst, that legendary and fabulous diamond glittering at the throat of my young lady, Miss Rachel Barander, in whose home I had for many years performed the duties of Major Domo, I said to myself, Gabriel Pertridge, here is a jewel tainted by centuries of avarice and violence.

But still, on that fateful morning of which I now tell, I was hardly prepared for what I heard from upstairs.

It was my daughter, Penelope.

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