Brief Summary and Thoughts about the Book the Moonstone
Between Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret and Wilkie Collins’ the Moonstone, the author of this paper chose to discuss the latter. In order to understand the difference between journalism and fiction, one has to be able to summarize what each side says. The Moonstone in this case represents fiction while the real-life elements of the case would represent journalism. The Moonstone revolved around the story of not a person but a huge yellow diamond—based on how Collins described it in his book. It turns out that this diamond was stolen by an English soldier during ...
