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Moonfleet is an 1898 novel written by English writer J. Meade Falkner. The plot is an adventure tale of smuggling, treasure, and shipwreck set in 18th-century England. [2]
John Meade Falkner (1858 - 1932) a teacher, tutor and successful industrialist. Notable among the relatively small number of books that he wrote was 'Moonfleet', a tale of smugglers that was a much-loved book for young readers for many years.
He wrote three novels including Moonfleet (1898), as well as publishing a volume of poetry (Poems, 1933) and a pocket history of Oxfordshire. J. J. Meade Falkner died on July 22, 1932.
Moonfleet, published in 1898, was written by John Meade Falkner (1858 – 1932). Remarkably Falkner only published three works of fiction, but each was highly successful.
Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner. 6,144 ratings, 3.95 average rating, 521 reviews. Open Preview. Moonfleet Quotes Showing 1-10 of 10. “We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal.”. ― John Meade Falkner, Moonfleet. 5 likes.
Plus I’m working on a smuggling story, so when I heard about John Meade Falkner’s Moonfleet, I just had to read it! Set in the mid-eighteenth century (though written about 150 years later), it tells the story of John Trenchard, a teenage orphan growing up in an impoverished coastal village in southern England.
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Moonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century.
