Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (Oxford World's Classics) -

R. D. Blackmore, Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Oxford University Press / OUP Oxford

2008

720 páginas

1d 0h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780199537594

'Every woman clutched her child, and every man turned pale at the very name of "Doone"' — John Ridd, an unsophisticated farmer, falls in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones on Exmoor. Ridd's rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna's future happiness. . .

First published in 1869, Lorna Doone was praised by R. L. Stevenson and Thomas Hardy and has remained constantly in print. The novel has many aspects: it is a romance; a historical novel set at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion in the seventeenth century; and a new development in the pastoral tradition. Underneath an ostensibly idyllic evocation of rural bliss and tale of love and high adventure lies a solid defence of Victorian social values, and a hero whose self-doubt prompts him constantly to prove himself.
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