The historical novel proper is seldom a very satisfactory production but there is more than one way by which its disadvantages can be neutralised. Something of the elaboration of a child's story of country-life - its love of details simply as details, its narrative of every walk taken, and every change of season - encumbers the tale but all these details, or almost all, contribute to the making up of so wonderfully harmonious and real a whole, that its historical date is lost in the truth of its actual life, and we cease to be conscious that there is anything antiquarian in the manners depicted.

It is very long, it is historical, and it is extremely minute in all its details. 'Lorna Doone' has several disadvantages that might s well discourage the ordinary reader. The fact is not unusual in a literary sense, but the season seems to be so unusually unpropitious, that we find ourselves concentrating our attention upon a novel which is not new, which has somehow managed to get through its first three-volume stage without attracting any particular notice, but which now, in a cheap edition, has mysteriously asserted itself and taken the world by storm. į we might venture to use commercial language in connection with wares so fragile, we should be disposed to say that, at this moment, novels are dull. The Routledge Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals identifies the author as Oliphant. Helpless, they decide to investigate the Doones on their own and try to find out where this group of criminals are hiding.This review of Blackmore's most famous novel, the text of which David Blackmore contributed, appeared anonymously in a longer review article of recent novels and other books.

When John goes to the police station with his uncle, they find that the police do not want to act because the Doones are very influential. His family's problems with that clan of thieves, the Doones, will not end there as years later John's uncle, a wealthy merchant, is robbed on his way to the farm.

The boy returns to live on the farm and no longer goes to school. John begins with his time as a student, at a school far from home, but nevertheless must return when a clan of thieves murders his father. It is set during the Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion and the Battle of Sedgemoor. The protagonist is John Ridd, and narrates the story in the form of a personal memoir. It garnered good sales and positive critical acclaim.

Blackmore and first published in 1869, initially in three volumes and the following year in a single volume. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel written by R. Lorna Doone Book download in PDF, ePub & Mobi by R.

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