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Literature/Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins, 1868

Wilkie Collins’s novel of a great Indian diamond, taken at the storming of Seringapatam, left to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday and stolen from her Yorkshire country house that same night; the story is told by several of those involved.

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Contents

Prologue: The Storming of Seringapatam (1799)

  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV

First Period: The Loss of the Diamond (1848)

  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter IX
  10. Chapter X
  11. Chapter XI
  12. Chapter XII
  13. Chapter XIII
  14. Chapter XIV
  15. Chapter XV
  16. Chapter XVI
  17. Chapter XVII
  18. Chapter XVIII
  19. Chapter XIX
  20. Chapter XX
  21. Chapter XXI
  22. Chapter XXII
  23. Chapter XXIII

Second Period: The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849), First Narrative

  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII

Second Period: The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849), Second Narrative

  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III

Second Period: The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849), Third Narrative

  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter IX
  10. Chapter X

Second Period: The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849)

  1. Fourth Narrative

Second Period: The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849), Fifth Narrative

  1. Chapter I

Second Period: The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849), Sixth Narrative

  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V

Second Period: The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849)

  1. Seventh Narrative
  2. Eighth Narrative

Epilogue: The Finding of the Diamond

  1. IThe Statement of Sergeant Cuff’s Man (1849)
  2. IIThe Statement of the Captain (1849)
  3. IIIThe Statement of Mr. Murthwaite (1850)