Lorna Doone (Puffin Classics)

by R. Blackmore (Author), Stephanie Nettel (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.80

  The tale of the beautiful Lorna, who was kidnapped by the Doones, a band of outlaws who terrorise Exmoor. Lorna yearns to be back with her family. Can yeoman farmer John Ridd, who is captivated by her beauty, help her to achieve her wish?

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story. Sally Shuttleworth's introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a startling sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian values, and portrays a 'manly' hero constantly having to prove his masculinity to himself.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $4.20

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $14.15

  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. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is discovered by the beautiful Lorna. In time their childish fantasies blossom into mature love - a bond that will inspire John to rescue his beloved from the ravages of a stormy winter, rekindling a conflict with his archrival, Carver Doone, that climaxes in heartrending violence. Beloved for its portrait of star-crossed lovers and its surpassing descriptions of the English countryside, Lorna Doone is R.D. Blackmore's enduring masterpiece.