R. L. Blackmore

Lorna Doone (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

John Ridd, a farmer, is desperately in love with Lorna, a member of the Doone clan betrothed to the clan heir, Carver Doone. Ridd helps Lorna evade Carver's clutches, but the revelation of her true birthright takes her far from Exmoor, and John, to the city of London.

Part romance and part pastoral novel, Richard Doddridge Blackmore's Lorna Doone incorporated real events and places of the author's experience. The novel has been adapted multiple times for film and television.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Canada
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781443434614
• Artikelnr.: 41089290

Autorenporträt

Richard Doddridge (R. D.) Blackmore was a nineteenth-century English novelist and a pioneer of the new romantic fiction that later inspired Robert Louis Stevenson. Blackmore's work was remarkable for its vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, and following the publication of the classic novel Lorna Doone, he was recognized as one of the most popular novelists of his time. Blackmore died in 1904 at the age of 74.