Jump to the bottom if you just want the brief conclusion, or read on for all the details! I doubt it would hold the interest of a younger reader. It’s also a fairly slow-paced book, with a plot that only has rare cliff-hanger moments. Lorna Doone is, I think, about the length of Dicken’s David Copperfield or Our Mutual Friend a longish book, but not to be compared to War and Peace or The Count of Monte Cristo. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Set in the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth, in wild, hilly Exmoor, England (not that I know anything about Exmoor, but that’s the impression I got), Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor weaves together history, legend, and fiction. 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.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. 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. Stevenson and Thomas Hardy and has remained constantly in print. Ridd's rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna's future happiness.įirst published in 1869, Lorna Doone was praised by R. 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. 'Every woman clutched her child, and every man turned pale at the very name of 'Doone''

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