Word: moonfleet
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Stevenson died four years too soon. In 1898, a London publisher brought out just the book he was asking for. Moonfleet was its title, and it was the second novel of a tutor-turned-private-secretary named John Meade Falkner. British readers have been buying it ever since at a rate that has never fallen below 10,000 copies a year. Now, thanks to the belated good sense of a U.S. publisher, Americans can lay their hands on a U.S. edition of Moonfleet, only 53 years late...
Once Aboard the Brig. Like Treasure Island, Moonfleet is the story of a half-grown boy, John Trenchard, who gets caught up among desperadoes-smugglers, in this case, on England's Dorsetshire coast. Like Stevenson's Jim Hawkins, young Johnnie first learns the true measure of the lawlessness in his vicinity while lying in concealment-not in a sweet-smelling apple barrel, but in the fust of an old crypt, with a corpse grinning at his elbow...
...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...