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Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-10-20
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	15396490839781539649083
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SUpvvgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner. Adventure Stories, Fiction the best book of all time, Children's book, Christmas gift. 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 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. An early book of 19th century, yet tops our present literature books