Moonfleet (Annotated)

Moonfleet is a finely wrought adventure romance set on the Dorset coast in the mid-eighteenth century, where orphaned John Trenchard is drawn into a world of smuggling, hidden treasure, and moral peril. Falkner combines the brisk plotting of Victorian boys' adventure fiction with a darker Gothic atmosphere: crypts, storms, secret codes, and the brooding presence of the sea all shape a tale concern...