The Moonstone
WILKIE COLLINS
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck
86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9
Deutschland
ISBN: 9783849658328
www.jazzybee-verlag.de
CONTENTS:
FIRST PERIOD. THE LOSS OF THE DIAMOND (1848) 6
SECOND PERIOD. THE DISCOVERY OF THE TRUTH. (1848-1849.) 163
EPILOGUE. THE FINDING OF THE DIAMOND. 399
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. 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.
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