Moonfleet

A boy in a Dorset smuggling village follows the men into the vault under the church and finds a locket, a diamond and a curse that goes with it. Falkner was an armaments company chairman who wrote three novels; this one has been a school favorite for a century and deserves adult readers too. This edition adds 55 plates of paintings by Munch, Stanfield, Monamy and others, and a translator's text.