by R. D. Blackmore · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192817679
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Lorna Doone is a historical romance novel set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's Rebellion (1685). The story follows John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of the seventeenth century, and his relationship with the beautiful Lorna Doone. The novel is known for its portrait of star-crossed lovers and its descriptions of the English countryside.
Richard Doddridge Blackmore, known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. He won acclaim for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works.
