Moonfleet (Puffin Classics) - Softcover

Exell, F.; Falkner, John Meade

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140350101 ISBN 13: 9780140350104

Publisher: Puffin Classics, 1983

Synopsis

Moonfleet is a novel written by John Meade Falkner that tells a classic tale of smuggling with the hunt for a royal treasure mixed in. This delightful tale of adventure is set in a small village near the sea in south England and was immediately popular after its publication in 1898. John Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet. Falkner was also a successful businessman who became the chairman of an arms manufacturer during World War I. Today Falkner is best known for his novels Moonfleet, The Lost Stradivarius, and The Nebuly Coat.

About this title

Book Description:

A classic story of high adventure, treasure and smuggling set in a small Dorset village of Moonfleet. Soon to be a major Sky TV series starring Ray Winstone.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Classics
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0140350101
• ISBN 13: 9780140350104
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256