Moonfleet

Moonfleet (1898) is an adventure novel by J. Meade Falkner. Largely forgotten by today-s readers, Falkner was more widely known in his lifetime for his nonfiction works on history and topography as well as his role as chairman of a major arms manufacturer. Far from the amateur musings of a bored millionaire, Falkner-s writing shows a mastery of genre fiction while benefitting from his extensive geographical knowledge. Moonfleet has been adapted several times for radio, television, and film, most notably for Fritz Lang-s 1955 feature of the same name. -When I was a child I thought that this place was called Moonfleet, because on a still night, whether in summer, or in winter frosts, the moon shone very brightly on the lagoon; but learned afterwards that ''twas but short for ''Mohune-fleet'', from the Mohunes, a great family who were once lords of all these parts.- Growing up in Moonfleet, young John Trenchard couldn-t help but hear the legends of the powerful Mohune fam