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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.The tiny village of Moonfleet is nestled along the English coast, and every one of its inhabitants lives off the sea in one way or another. When local young man John Trenchard accidentally stumbles upon treasure stashed in the local crypt, he unknowingly enters the murky world of the smuggling trade and the local secret of Colonel John Mohune’s treasure.Trenchard is soon forced to flee England with a ...

The village of Moonfleet lies half a mile from the sea on the right or west bank of the Fleet stream. This rivulet, which is so narrow as it passes the houses that I have known a good jumper clear it without a pole, broadens out into salt marshes below the village, and loses itself at last in a lake of brackish water. The lake is good for nothing except sea-fowl, herons, and oysters, and forms such a place as they call in the Indies a lagoon; being shut off from the open Channel by a monst...

This Work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. Moonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline. It remains a popular story widely read and is still sometimes studied in schools. The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th ...

Moonfleet is a finely wrought adventure romance set on the Dorset coast in the mid-eighteenth century, where orphaned John Trenchard is drawn into a world of smuggling, hidden treasure, and moral peril. Falkner combines the brisk plotting of Victorian boys' adventure fiction with a darker Gothic atmosphere: crypts, storms, secret codes, and the brooding presence of the sea all shape a tale concerned not merely with excitement, but with loyalty, guilt, and redemption. Its literary kinship w...

John Trenchard, an orphan living with his aunt in the town of Moonfleet, hears rumours of a secret treasure hidden years before by the notorious thief Blackbeard. While exploring the town, John gets caught up in the search for the treasure, and embarks on a series of adventures that change the course of his life.Moonfleet is the best-known work from author John Meade Falkner. It has been adapted numerous times for television, film, and radio, most notably in 1955 by direct...

The Lost Stradivarius, by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title in a hidden compartment in his college rooms, the protagonist, a wealthy young heir, becomes increasingly secretive as well as obsessed by a particular piece of music, which seems to have the power to call up the ghost of its previous owner. Roaming from England to Italy, the story in...

Buried treasure. Hidden tunnels. Dangerous alliances. Welcome to the coast of 18th-century England. Moonfleet is an atmospheric and thrilling novel that blends the mystery of a lost diamond, the danger of coastal smuggling, and the coming-of-age story of young John Trenchard, who stumbles into a secret society of smugglers hiding beneath the quiet village of Moonfleet. As John's journey spirals into betrayal, stormy seas, and narrow escapes, honor, loyalty, and courage are tested in a worl...

Beneath the quiet surface of a coastal village lies a world of smugglers, secrets, danger, and buried treasure. In Moonfleet, J. Meade Falkner delivers a thrilling adventure novel filled with mystery, suspense, hidden treasure, and unforgettable characters. Set against the rugged Dorset coast of England, the story transports readers into a world of secret passages, smuggling, danger, and long-buried mysteries. Blending historical fiction with adventure, mystery, and suspense, Falkner creat...