Title:
Lorna Doone : a romance of Exmoor / Richard Doddridge Blackmore ; edited with an introduction and notes by R.D. Madison and Michelle Allen.
ISBN:
9780143039327
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Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2005.
Physical Description:
xxxv, 750 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Elements of education -- Important item -- War-path of the Doones -- Very rash visit -- Illegal settlement -- Reaping leads to revelling -- Annie gets the best of it -- John Fry's errand -- Feeding of the pigs -- Early morning call -- Jeremy finds out something -- Mutual discomfiture -- Getting into Chancery -- John becomes too popular -- Lorna knows her nurse.
Summary:
In seventeenth-century England, John Ridd returns home to Exmoor and forms a forbidden but enduring friendship with Lorna Doone, the granddaughter of the head of the outlaw Doone clan responsible for the death of John's father.
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Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2005043372-b.htmlPublisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2005043372-d.html
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OCLC Number:
ocm58563054
Availability:
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