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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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Historical fictionMonmouth's Rebellion, 1685 -- FictionLove storiesExmoor (England) -- Fiction

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  1. 01Front matter~4 min
  2. 02CHAPTER I~11 min
  3. 03CHAPTER II~23 min
  4. 04CHAPTER III — part 1~25 min
  5. 05CHAPTER III — part 2~7 min
  6. 06CHAPTER IV~20 min
  7. 07CHAPTER V~16 min
  8. 08CHAPTER VI~19 min
  9. 09CHAPTER VII — part 1~25 min
  10. 10CHAPTER VII — part 2~5 min
  11. 11CHAPTER VIII~19 min
  12. 12CHAPTER IX~17 min
  13. 13CHAPTER X~20 min
  14. 14CHAPTER XI~19 min
  15. 15CHAPTER XII — part 1~25 min
  16. 16CHAPTER XII — part 2~2 min
  17. 17CHAPTER XIII~25 min
  18. 18CHAPTER XIV~12 min
  19. 19CHAPTER XV~25 min
  20. 20CHAPTER XVI~15 min
  21. 21CHAPTER XVII~21 min
  22. 22CHAPTER XVIII~13 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XIX~16 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XX~19 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XXI~22 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XXII~18 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XXIII~24 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XXIV~22 min
  29. 29CHAPTER XXV~22 min
  30. 30CHAPTER XXVI~21 min

A few words to begin

ELEMENTS OF EDUCATION If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, John Ridd, of the parish of Oare, in the county of Somerset, yeoman and churchwarden, have seen and had a share in some doings of this neighborhood, which I will try to set down in order, God sparing my life and memory. And they who light upon this book should bear in mind not only that I write for the clearing of our parish from ill fame and calumny, but also a thing which will, I trow, appear too often in it, to wit--that I am nothing more than a plain unlettered man, not read in foreign languages, as a gentleman might be, nor gifted with long words (even in mine own tongue), save what I may have won from the Bible or Master William Shakespeare, whom, in the face of common opinion, I do value highly. In short, I am an ignoramus, but pretty well for a yeoman.

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