by R. D. Blackmore, David Penn · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194791779
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«Lorna Doone» is the novel by R. D. Blackmore adapted by David Penn, published by Oxford University Press España in paperback (88 pages, in English).
In 1673, young John Ridd returns from school to his home across the lonely moors of Exmoor. The valley of the Doones, a family of thieves and murderers, is a dangerous place feared by the whole region. On arriving, he hears news that gives him reason to hate them; later he will meet Lorna Doone and fall in love with her.
It belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 4, with 17,000 words of text and a vocabulary of 1,400 words; the book includes audio.
For intermediate-level (B1+) English students who want to practice reading and listening comprehension with graded readers.
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.
