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

Blackmore, R. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192836277 ISBN 13: 9780192836274

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Lorna Doone is the story of how 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.
First published in 1869, Lorna Doone was praised by Thomas Hardy, R. L. Stevenson, and Gerard Manley Hopkins in the nineteenth century and has remained constantly in print. The novel is multi-faceted: 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 a tale of love and high adventure lies a solid defence of Victorian social values, and, in John Ridd's often humorous and self-deprecating narration, a problematic image of a 'manly' hero whose inward doubt prompts him constantly to prove his own masculinity to himself.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

Historical romance by R.D. Blackmore, published in 1869. Set in the wilds of Exmoor (northern Devonshire, Eng.) during the late 17th century, the novel concerns the adventurous life of the yeoman John Ridd and his love for Lorna Doone, a beautiful maiden. Blackmore considered the novel a romance and studded it with the high adventure, dramatic set pieces, bloody villainy, and obstacles to love that characterize the genre. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192836277
• ISBN 13: 9780192836274
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720
• Editor: Shuttleworth Sally