![]() ![]() He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild. First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. Lorna Doone R D Blackmore c1934 ID933 £7.04 Was: £8.80 Free postage Retro Vintage Lorna Doone Hardback Book £3.49 £3.35 postage or Best Offer Folio Society book: Lorna Doone by R D Blackmore, 2000 with slipcase £20.00 £3. Sir Ensor’s impetuous and now jealous heir Carver will let nothing thwart his plan to marry Lorna once he comes into his inheritance. Madison (Editor), Michelle Allen (Editor) 3.73. ![]() She turns out (apparently) to be the granddaughter of Sir Ensor, lord of the Doones. He meets Lorna by accident and falls hopelessly in love. Battling his desire for revenge, John (in West Country dialect, pronounced "Jan") too grows into a respectable farmer who cares well for his mother and sisters. The notorious Doone clan, once nobles and now outlaws, murdered John’s father. ![]() ![]() John Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer in 17th century Exmoor, a region in North Devon and Somerset, England. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor. Blackmore (1825-1900) was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the 19th Century. Blackmore Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. ![]()
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