Lorna Doone (Summarized Edition)

Lorna Doone (1869) is John Ridd's first-person chronicle of love and vengeance on Exmoor. Set amid the Monmouth Rebellion and the Bloody Assizes, it entwines a yeoman's courtship of Lorna—ward of the Doone outlaws—with feud, ambush, and the cadences of rural labor. Blackmore blends Scottian historical romance with Victorian regional realism: melodrama is checked by close observation of weather, wa...