Moonfleet: 1 (Scholastic Classics) - Softcover

 

Scholastic Children's Books are proud to publish thisbeautiful edition of the classic tale, Moonfleet.

When young John Trenchard comes upon hidden treasure in the local crypt he is drawn in the sinister world of smugglers, who exercise their trade along the Dorset coast by the village of Moonfleet.

Elzevir Block, innkeeper and master smuggler, takes the young man under his wing and soon John is leading a life more dangerousand thrilling than he could have imagined.

But the law is closing in.

Accused of murder, there is a price on John's head.

The only option is to flee England at the cost of losing his sweetheart, Grace Maskew. . .

 

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• A Christmas Carol
• A Little Princess
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Anne Of Green Gables
• Black Beauty
• Five Children and It
• Just So Stories
• Kidnapped
• Little Women
• Moonfleet
• Oliver Twist
• Pollyanna
• The Happy Prince and Other Stories
• The Jungle Book
• The Railway Children
• The Secret Garden
• The Wind in the Willows
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Treasure Island
• What Katy Did

John Meade Falkner was born in Wiltshire and spent much of his childhood in Dorchester and Weymouth. He was a student at Hertford College, Oxford and graduated with a degree in history in 1882. Falkner because a teacher before going into business and became chairman of Armstrong Whitworth Co., one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world. After his retirement in 1921 he became Honorary Reader in Paleography at Durham University, as well as Honorary Librarian to the Dean and Chapter Library of Durham Cathedral. He lived in Divinity House, Durham, in front of the cathedral, until his death in 1902.