Moonfleet

John Meade Falkner

ISBN 10: 9386686767 / ISBN 13: 9789386686763

Published by Alpha Editions 2017-09-09, 2017

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Seller Inventory # 6666-IUK-9789386686763

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moonfleet
• Publisher: Alpha Editions 2017-09-09
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9386686767
• ISBN 13: 9789386686763
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Moonfleet is an adventure story which begins in a small English town of the same name. John is an orphan and has grown up in his aunt's house. He accidentally stumbles into a smuggling heist, to which he eventually becomes a willing party. The ensuing adventure takes him far from home and it is not until years later that his ship wrecks right near Moonfleet, and he finds himself back where he started.

From the Back Cover

Moonfleet (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? How can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune's treasure? As the book progresses these two interwoven themes resolve themselves into a third and richer one, with the friendship and suffering of both John Trenchard and the craggy, taciturn Elzevir Block. The novel is at once a well-paced account of dramatic action and a celebration of the unregainable freedoms of childhood, when, as Falkner's sister wrote in a memoir, 'there are no seasons, everything happens all the year round'. Falkner's feeling for history and for the landscape of his Dorset setting combine with his gift for storytelling to turn Moonfleet into a historical romance of moving intensity.