Moonfleet
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- First published
- 1898
- Pages
- 187
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Chapter 1 IN MOONFLEET VILLAGE
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Chapter 2 THE FLOODS
22:50 -
Chapter 3 A DISCOVERY
27:14 -
Chapter 4 Part (1) IN THE VAULT
18:03 -
Chapter 4 Part (2) IN THE VAULT
17:12 -
Chapter 5 THE RESCUE
10:07 -
Chapter 6 AN ASSAULT
15:38 -
Chapter 7 AN AUCTION
21:19 -
Chapter 8 THE LANDING
24:14 -
Chapter 9 A JUDGEMENT
14:48 -
Chapter 10 Part (1) THE ESCAPE
17:19 -
Chapter 10 Part (2) THE ESCAPE
17:34 -
Chapter 11 THE SEA-CAVE
17:10 -
Chapter 12 Part (1) A FUNERAL
16:25 -
Chapter 12 Part (2) A FUNERAL
20:08 -
Chapter 13 AN INTERVIEW
23:40 -
Chapter 14 THE WELL-HOUSE
18:48 -
Chapter 15 THE WELL
22:00 -
Chapter 16 Part (1) THE JEWEL
22:42 -
Chapter 16 Part (2) THE JEWEL
21:35 -
Chapter 17 AT YMEGUEN
16:01 -
Chapter 18 IN THE BAY
26:16 -
Chapter 19 Part (1) ON THE BEACH
21:48 -
Chapter 19 Part (2) ON THE BEACH
17:48
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About this book
Set in a windswept Dorset village in the mid-eighteenth century, this beloved adventure follows orphan John Trenchard, who stumbles into a world of smugglers hiding contraband in the vault beneath the parish church. Drawn by the local legend of Blackbeard Mohune and a lost diamond, John forms a deep bond with the innkeeper Elzevir Block, and the two are swept into flight, shipwreck, imprisonment, and a hunt for buried treasure. John Meade Falkner tells a story of loyalty, guilt, and hard-won redemption, its salt-stung coastline and moonlit graveyards giving it an atmosphere generations of readers have loved. It remains a staple of English adventure writing.
From the opening pages
“So sleeps the pride of former days.”
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 monstrous great beach or dike of pebbles, of which I shall speak more hereafter. When I was a child I thought that this place was called Moonfleet, because on a still night, whether in summer, or in winter frosts, the moon shone very brightly on the lagoon; but learned afterwards that ’twas but short for “Mohune-fleet,” from the Mohunes, a great family who were once lords of all these parts.
My name is John Trenchard, and I was fifteen years of age when this story begins. My father and mother had both been dead for years, and I boarded with my aunt, Miss Arnold, who was kind to me in her own fashion, but too strict and precise ever to make me love her.
I shall first speak of one evening in the fall of the year 1757. It must have been late in October, though I have forgotten the exact date, and I sat in the little front parlour reading after tea. My aunt had few books; a Bible, a Common Prayer, and some volumes of sermons are all that I can recollect now; but the Reverend Mr. Glennie, who taught us village children, had lent me a storybook, full of interest and adventure, called the Arabian Nights Entertainment. At last the light began to fail, and I was nothing loth to leave off reading for several reasons; as, first, the parlour was a chilly room with horsehair chairs and sofa, and only a coloured-paper screen in the grate, for my aunt did not allow a fire till the first of November; second, there was a rank smell of molten tallow in the house, for my aunt was dipping winter candles on frames in the back kitchen; third, I had reached a part in the Arabian Nights which tightened my breath and made me wish to leave off reading for very anxiousness of expectation. It was that point in the story of the “Wonderful Lamp,” where the false uncle lets fall a stone that seals the mouth of the underground chamber; and immures the boy, Aladdin, in the darkness, because he would not give up the lamp till he stood safe on the surface again.
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Book facts
- Author
- John Meade Falkner
- First published
- 1898
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 187
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook