The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 8 · 9,308 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Country homes — Fiction · East Indians — England — Fiction · England — Fiction · Jewelry theft — Fiction

Words worth knowing: smartness · professionally · flighty · imperatively · beehive · periodically · trumpery · pitfall

THE MOONSTONE A Romance by Wilkie Collins Contents PROLOGUE THE STORY FIRST PERIOD SECOND PERIOD FIRST NARRATIVE SECOND NARRATIVE THIRD NARRATIVE FOURTH NARRATIVE FIFTH NARRATIVE SIXTH NARRATIVE I II III IV V SEVENTH NARRATIVE EIGHTH NARRATIVE EPILOGUE I II III PROLOGUE THE STORMING OF SERINGAPATAM (1799): _(Extracted from a Family Paper.

)_ I 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.

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