Books with author J. Meade Falkner

Moonfleet is a story of smuggling by using the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The book become extraordinarily popular amongst kids global up until the Nineteen Seventies, on the whole for its subject matters of journey and gripping storyline. It stays a popular tale extensively read and continues to be once in a while studied in faculties.The novel is ready in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The tale issues a fifteen 12 months vintage orphan boy, John Trenchard, who turns into pals with an older guy who seems to be the chief of a gang of smugglers.

Orphaned John Trenchard grows up in the village of Moonfleet with his aunt, entranced by the local legend of the ghostly Blackbeard, who rises each winter night to search for his lost diamond. While conducting his own hunt for the treasure, John is trapped in the church crypt and discovers the true secret of the village: smuggling. Taken under the wing of the gruff innkeeper and chief smuggler, Elzevir Block, John begins a dangerous adventure which will see him in a hair-raising chase along a precarious cliff path and deciphering a hidden code in an ancient castle. Moonfleet is thrilling story of revenge and betrayal, of loyalty and great sacrifice, but it is above all a story about friendship..