Lorna Doone (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: R. D. Blackmore
- First Published: 1869
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Late seventeenth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: John Ridd, Sir Ensor Doone, Lorna Doone, Carver Doone, Tom Faggus, Jeremy Stickles, Reuben Huckaback
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, England or English people, Honesty, Seventeenth century, Cruelty, Adventure, Espionage or spies, Outlaws, Nostalgia
- Locales: England
The Story:
John Ridd was engaged in a schoolboy fight in the yard of Blundell’s school when John Fry, employed by Ridd’s father, came to take the boy home. Before the two left, however, young John completed his fight by knocking out his opponent. On their way home through the moorlands, they were nearly captured by members of the outlaw Doone band, who had been ravaging the countryside by stealing and killing. When John Ridd reached his father’s farm, he learned that the Doones had attacked and murdered his father only a few days previously. This incident stimulated the...
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