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Block must leave the inn and Moonfleet but plans one last smuggling venture. John feels honour-bound to go with him, and visits Grace Maskew, whom he loves and has been seeing in secret, to say goodbye; his aunt gives him his mother's prayer book — her last hope to influence John towards piety.
I have a feeling that this is a novel I will return to again and again, and hope to read to my kids in the future. If you're an enthusiast of pirates, smuggled goods, old cursed treasure and deadly shipwrecks, you may well feel the same.
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may be hard for the youth of our more cynical times to credit, but it betokens a continuing resilience in John Meade Falkner’s Moonfleet over the decades since its first publication in 1898. After all, for many years it existed chiefly as a drab-looking ‘class reader’ (with its mild cuss-words toned down so as not to offend sensitive ...
He certainly seems to have been out of his comfort zone with Moonfleet and the film was a critical flop and a box office disaster. The BBC adapted the novel as a television serial under the title Smuggler’s Bay in 1964.
Unwittingly, young John Trenchard gets involved in the smuggling trade and is forced to flee England with a price on his head, not knowing whether he’ll ever return to Moonfleet village again, or how his fortunes will change.
Apr 24, 2020 · John Trenchard is an orphan (of course) in the seaside village of Moonfleet. When he stumbles across an elaborate system of smugglers, it seems like excitement is right around the corner. There is a tale of a ghost and buried treasure and John eagerly goes in search of this lost diamond.
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When fifteen-year-old John Trenchard discovers a secret passage into the vault of the powerful Mohune family, his peaceful life in the Dorset village of Moonfleet is at an end. It is said that Captain Mohune, the notorious Blackbeard, haunts the place with wild and bloodcurdling cries, forever seeking his hidden treasure.
