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The Moonstone
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A pioneering detective novel built around theft, suspicion, testimony, and hidden motive.
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The Moonstone
The Moonstone follows the mystery of a stolen diamond through shifting narrators, family secrets, and investigative puzzles. Collins’s novel is often treated as a foundational work of English detective fiction.
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Wilkie Collins died in 1889, and The Moonstone was first published in 1868; these dates support the public-domain basis for this English edition.
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
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THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799):
(Extracted from a Family Paper.)
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I address these lines—written in India—to my relatives in England.
My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Herncastle. The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in this matter has been misinterpreted by members of my family whose good opinion I cannot consent to forfeit. I request them to suspend their decision until they have read my narrative. And I declare, on my word of honour, that what I am now about to write is, strictly and literally, the truth.
The private difference between my cousin and me took its rise in a great public event in which we were both concerned—the storming of Seringapatam, under General Baird, on the 4th of May, 1799.
In order that the circumstances may be clearly understood, I must revert for a moment to the period before the assault, and to the stories current in our camp of the treasure in jewels and gold stored up in the Palace of Seringapatam.
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- 01Full text
- 02PROLOGUE
- 03I
- 04II
- 05III
- 06IV
- 07THE STORY
- 08FIRST PERIOD
- 09CHAPTER I
- 10CHAPTER II
- 11CHAPTER III
- 12CHAPTER IV
- 13CHAPTER V
- 14CHAPTER VI
- 15CHAPTER VII
- 16CHAPTER VIII
- 17CHAPTER IX
- 18CHAPTER X
- 19CHAPTER XI
- 20CHAPTER XII
- 21CHAPTER XIII
- 22CHAPTER XIV
- 23CHAPTER XV
- 24CHAPTER XVI
- 25CHAPTER XVII
- 26CHAPTER XVIII
- 27CHAPTER XIX
- 28CHAPTER XX
- 29CHAPTER XXI
- 30CHAPTER XXII
- 31CHAPTER XXIII
- 32CHAPTER I
- 33CHAPTER II
- 34CHAPTER III
- 35CHAPTER IV
- 36CHAPTER V
- 37CHAPTER VI
- 38CHAPTER VII
- 39CHAPTER VIII
- 40CHAPTER I
- 41CHAPTER II
- 42CHAPTER III
- 43CHAPTER I
- 44CHAPTER II
- 45CHAPTER III
- 46CHAPTER IV
- 47CHAPTER V
- 48CHAPTER VI
- 49CHAPTER VII
- 50CHAPTER VIII
- 51CHAPTER IX
- 52CHAPTER X
- 53CHAPTER I
- 54I
- 55II
- 56III
- 57IV
- 58V
- 59I
- 60II
- 61III
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