Moonfleet . E-book. Formato EPUB - 9788827507230
Un ebook di John Meade Falkner edito da Skyline, 2017
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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. My name is John Trenchard, and I was fifteen years of age when this story begins. My father and mother had both been dead for years, and I boarded with my aunt, Miss Arnold, who was kind to me in her own fashion, but too strict and precise ever to make me love her.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo: Moonfleet . E-book. Formato EPUB
- Autore: John Meade Falkner
- Editore: Skyline
- Data di Pubblicazione: 2017
- Formato: EPUB
- Protezione: Filigrana digitale
- ISBN-13: 9788827507230