ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. 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. 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.
First published in 1869, Lorna Doone was praised by R. Ridd's rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna's future happiness. ‘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.
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