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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

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In the seventeenth century, the wild valley of the Doones, a family of outlaw nobles, terrorises the countryside of Exmoor in south-west England. John Ridd…

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Author
R. D. Blackmore
Category
Novels & Stories
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

In the seventeenth century, the wild valley of the Doones, a family of outlaw nobles, terrorises the countryside of Exmoor in south-west England. John Ridd, a farmer's son whose father the Doones have murdered, climbs as a boy up a waterfall into their hidden valley and meets Lorna, a little girl who lives among them. He grows into the strongest man in the county and falls in love with her, but she is promised to the violent Carver Doone, and the story moves through the terrible frost of 1683 and the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth to the secret of Lorna's birth.

Context and significance

R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900) published the novel in 1869, and it became one of the most popular historical romances of the Victorian age; its narrator, John, tells it with homely humour in the voice of an old man. The same rebellion sends the hero of Sabatini's Captain Blood into slavery.

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