A thrilling Victorian adventure story of smuggling, cursed treasure, code-cracking, injustice, revenge, and friendship Beginning as a mystery and an adventure story, this tale of smuggling is 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 Mohune's 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. Falkner's feeling for history and for the landscape of his Dorset setting combine with his gift for storytelling to turn this ripping yarn into a historical romance of moving intensity.

Moonfleet (Vintage Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Falkner, John Meade

Contemporary

Vintage Classics

Moonfleet (Puffin Classics)

A thrilling adventure story of smuggling, cursed treasure, code-cracking, injustice, revenge and friendship. Orphaned John Trenchard grows up in the vollage 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 a thrilling story of revenge and betrayal, of loyalty and great sacrifice, but is above all a story about friendship.

Moonfleet

Puffin

Moonfleet (jab)

This is a reissue of Falkner's novel, first published in 1903. Edward Westray, a young architect, is sent to the remote Dorset town to supervise the restoration of the ancient abbey church where he stumbles into a murder mystery provoked by claims to the local title of Lord Blandamer, whose coat of arms is the nebuly coat of the title. The novel follows Westray's embroilment in the motivation for the murder. It includes details of ecclesiastical architecture, heraldry and ancient music. There is a chronology of Falkner and an introduction by Christopher Hawtree with explanatory notes on the text.

The Nebuly Coat (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Oxford University Press

Both a mystery and an adventure story, the classic Moonfleet (1898) is a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. It is at once a well-paced account of dramatic action and a celebration of the unregainable freedoms of childhood. Falkner's feeling for history and for the topography of his Dorset setting combine with his gift for storytelling to turn Moonfleet into an historical romance of moving intensity.

Moonfleet (The ^AWorld's Classics)

United States

Set in Oxford and Naples during the 1840s, The Lost Stradivarius is a tale of demonic possession and of the terrible price paid by "those who would exalt art at the expense of everything else." Though long recognized as a classic and gripping story of the occult, it is also a work which touches the "decadent" years of the nineteenth century at sensitive points--the psychical, the moral, and the aesthetic. This is the only annotated edition available and it contains extensive notes about the Aesthetic Movement, neoplatonism, and musical instruments.

The Lost Stradivarius (The ^AWorld's Classics)

British & Irish

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is a classic tale of smuggling and adventure, set on the Dorset coast and featuring John Trenchard and Mohunes.

Heinemann ed

The Lost Stradivarius (1895), 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.

The Lost Stradivarius (Detective Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dover Publications

The Lost Stradivarius (Large Print Edition)

BiblioLife

The Lost Stradivarius

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Moonfleet (Vintage Classics)

Moonfleet

Moonfleet (jab)

The Nebuly Coat (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Moonfleet (The ^AWorld's Classics)

The Lost Stradivarius (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Moonfleet

The Lost Stradivarius (Detective Series)

The Lost Stradivarius (Large Print Edition)

The Lost Stradivarius