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Moonfleet, by J. Meade Falkner. First U.S. publication of a turn-of-the-century English classic about smugglers, diamonds and growing boys, for people who reread Treasure Island (TIME...
Moonfleet, by J. Meade Falkner. First U.S. publication of a turn-of-the-century English classic about smugglers, diamonds and growing boys, for people who reread Treasure Island (TIME...
...pigeon's egg" that lies hidden in the wall of an ancient well in Caris-brooke Castle. Thence away to a fence for such merchandise in The Hague, who cheats poor Johnnie out of his diamond and lands him aboard a brig bound for Java-until Author Falkner manages a nick-of-time escape...
...Villainous Squire. Falkner has a style as proper to 18th Century adventure as anybody could ask for. His description of the villain, Squire Maskew, is characteristic: "He had a thin face with a sharp nose that looked as if it would peck you, and grey eyes that could pierce a millstone if there was a guinea on the far side...
...heart, Falkner was an antiquarian. He delighted in local history and prized his job as honorary reader in paleography at the University of Durham. Five years after Moonfleet, he wrote another adventure story, The Nebuly Coat, which the critics liked even better, but which did not sell nearly so well as the story of Johnnie Trenchard. It was Falkner's last fling as a novelist. Increasingly, like a sensible Englishman, he turned his attention to business. By 1915, he was chairman of the munitions firm of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. But by 1932, when he died, it was clear that...