Moonfleet (Annotated)

J. Meade Falkner's Moonfleet is a finely wrought tale of smuggling, buried treasure, and moral apprenticeship set on the Dorset coast in the mid-eighteenth century. Narrated retrospectively by young John Trenchard, the novel combines the momentum of adventure romance with the melancholy atmosphere of Gothic fiction: crypts, storms, secret codes, and spectral legends frame a story of greed, loyalty...