Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Paul Bril, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Aert Anthoniszoon. Exmoor in the 1680s: the Doones ride down from their valley to rob and murder as they please, and John Ridd — farmer, wrestler, plain narrator — loves the girl they stole as a child. Blackmore gives the landscape as much attention as the lovers, and the great frost of the winter the Doones are besieged is the best-written weather in Victorian fiction. Paintings of moorland, rebellion skirmish and Devon farmstead, with Gilded Library ornament of heather, flintlock and oak. Its 204 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.
Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Paul Bril, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Aert Anthoniszoon. Exmoor in the 1680s: the Doones ride down from their valley to rob and murder as they please, and John Ridd — farmer, wrestler, plain narrator — loves the girl they stole as a child. Bla...
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900) grew pears and grapes at Teddington and wrote between harvests, insisting to the end that he was a fruit farmer who published. This was his third novel and the only one still read; it turned Exmoor into a place people travel to see.
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900) grew pears and grapes at Teddington and wrote between harvests, insisting to the end that he was a fruit farmer who published. This was his third novel and the only one still read; it turned Exmoor into a place people travel to see.
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