Moonfleet

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Moonfleet

Author : John Meade Falkner

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

256

Pages

9780140621440

ISBN-13

0140621440

ISBN-10

PENGUIN CLASSICS

Publisher

176 mm

Height

110 mm

Width

16 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

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 Mohunes treasure As the book progresses these two interwoven themes resolve themselves into a 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 Mohunes 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. Falkners 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.