by John Meade Falkner · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781840221695
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«Moonfleet» is the adventure novel by John Meade Falkner, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (236 pages, in English).
Set in eighteenth-century Dorset, it follows John Trenchard, a fifteen-year-old orphan living with Elzevir Block, an innkeeper and smuggler. Among graveyards, tunnels and old legends, the young man becomes caught up in the search for the treasure of Blackbeard, a pirate whose name still frightens the inhabitants of Moonfleet.
The book first appeared in 1898; this edition belongs to the Wordsworth Children's Classics collection.
For young readers and adults looking for adventure classics: a story of pirates and smugglers in the vein of Treasure Island.
John Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel Moonfleet. An extremely successful businessman, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth during World War I.
