Moonfleet

By Falkner, J. Meade

Book Id: WPLBN0000623750
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Moonfleet
Author:	Falkner, J. Meade
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Meade Falkner, B. J. (n.d.). Moonfleet. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. In Moonfleet Village So Deeps the pride of former days More The village of Moonfleet lies half a mile from the sea on the right or west bank of the Fleet stream. This rivulet, which is so narrow as it passes the houses that I have known a good jumper clear it without a pole, broadens out into salt marshes below the village, and loses itself at last in a lake of brackish water. The lake is good for nothing except sea?fowl, herons, and oysters, and forms such a place as they call in the Indies a lagoon; being shut off from the open Channel by a monstrous great beach or dike of pebbles, of which I shall speak more hereafter. When I was a child I thought that this place was called Moonfleet, because on a still night, whether in summer, or an 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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Moonfleet, 1 -- J. Meade Falkner:, 1 -- Chapter 1. In Moonfleet Village, 1 -- Chapter 2. The Floods, 6 -- Chapter 3. A Discovery, 11 -- Chapter 4. In The Vault, 16 -- Chapter 5. The Rescue, 24 -- Chapter 6. An Assault, 26 -- Chapter 7. An Auction, 29 -- Chapter 8. The Landing, 33 -- Chapter 9. A Judgement, 39 -- Chapter 10. The Escape, 42 -- Chapter 11. The Sea?Cave, 50 -- Chapter 12. A Funeral, 54 -- Chapter 13. An Interview, 61 -- Chapter 14. The Well?House, 66 -- Chapter 15. The Well, 70 -- Chapter 16. The Jewel, 75 -- Chapter 17. At Ymeguen, 85 -- Chapter 18. In The Bay, 88 -- Chapter 19. On The Beach, 94 -- Moonfleet