Moonfleet

John Meade Falkner

ISBN 10: 1603863079 / ISBN 13: 9781603863070

Published by Merchant Books 2010-02, 2010

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Seller Inventory # 6666-IUK-9781603863070

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moonfleet
• Publisher: Merchant Books 2010-02
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603863079
• ISBN 13: 9781603863070
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old John Trenchard lives in the coastal village of Moonfleet, where Blackbeard's ghost is said to walk each night in search of his long-lost diamond. When John discovers Blackbeard's coffin, he finds a mysterious clue to the whereabouts of the legendary jewel.

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.