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The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

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A valuable diamond taken from India enters an English household and disappears after being given to Rachel Verinder. Suspicions unsettle servants, relatives, and visitors as investigators try to reconstruct the night. Several narrators contribute accounts whose limitations become part of the mystery they are helping to explain.

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About The Moonstone

The changing witnesses offer different social positions, habits, and investments in appearing reasonable. Their confidence can reveal prejudices as well as useful observations. Read the household’s reactions alongside the diamond’s earlier history, and compare the collection of facts with the practical difficulty of interpreting them when affection, reputation, and personal secrecy affect what people disclose.

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Compare the witnesses’ partial accounts while following a missing diamond whose history complicates the household’s assumptions about ownership and suspicion.

This reading edition contains 196,347 words in 57 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: Wilkie Collins. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

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THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799):

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Contents

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  1. PROLOGUE10 min
  2. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER I5 min
  3. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER II9 min
  4. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER III13 min
  5. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER IV16 min
  6. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER V14 min
  7. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER VI21 min
  8. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER VII8 min
  9. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER VIII21 min
  10. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER IX12 min
  11. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER X22 min
  12. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XI37 min
  13. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XII21 min
  14. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XIII11 min
  15. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XIV16 min
  16. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XV26 min
  17. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XVI17 min
  18. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XVII13 min
  19. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XVIII13 min
  20. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XIX10 min
  21. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XX7 min
  22. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XXI19 min
  23. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XXII17 min
  24. THE STORY — FIRST PERIOD — CHAPTER XXIII22 min
  25. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIRST NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER I21 min
  26. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIRST NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER II20 min
  27. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIRST NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER III19 min
  28. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIRST NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER IV16 min
  29. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIRST NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER V16 min
  30. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIRST NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER VI3 min
  31. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIRST NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER VII20 min
  32. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIRST NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER VIII27 min
  33. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SECOND NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER I21 min
  34. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SECOND NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER II9 min
  35. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SECOND NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER III19 min
  36. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER I9 min
  37. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER II13 min
  38. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER III15 min
  39. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER IV28 min
  40. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER V17 min
  41. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER VI18 min
  42. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER VII25 min
  43. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER VIII25 min
  44. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER IX28 min
  45. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — THIRD NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER X26 min
  46. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FOURTH NARRATIVE.67 min
  47. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — FIFTH NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER I33 min
  48. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SIXTH NARRATIVE. — I1 min
  49. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SIXTH NARRATIVE. — II6 min
  50. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SIXTH NARRATIVE. — III5 min
  51. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SIXTH NARRATIVE. — IV4 min
  52. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SIXTH NARRATIVE. — V6 min
  53. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — SEVENTH NARRATIVE.4 min
  54. THE STORY — SECOND PERIOD. — EIGHTH NARRATIVE.4 min
  55. EPILOGUE. — I2 min
  56. EPILOGUE. — II3 min
  57. EPILOGUE. — III7 min

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