Lorna Doone

R. D. Blackmore

⏱ 7 minAdventure classic

The huge, gentle farmer John Ridd loves Lorna, a beautiful girl held captive among the outlaw Doones who murdered his father, in Blackmore's beloved romance of Exmoor, ending with a shot at the wedding altar and a reckoning in the black bog.

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