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

Blackmore, R. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199537593 ISBN 13: 9780199537594

Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2009

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'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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SS is Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield

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• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199537593
• ISBN 13: 9780199537594
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 680
• Herausgeber: Shuttleworth Sally
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