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(0)R. D Blackmore
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A sweeping novel of the Napoleonic Wars by the author of Lorna Doone.
Capt. Caryl Carne, half French, and half English have returned to the coastal town of Springhaven in Sussex, home to his ancestral castle, which now lies in ruins. In secret communication with the French, he plots to aid them with their planned invasion.
Meanwhile, the Englishman known as Captain Scuddy is taken prisoner in France, where he learns of Carne's treacherous scheme....
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Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor R. D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor.Set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water region of Exmoor in Devon and Somerset, England. John Ridd is the son of...
3) Lorna Doone
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English
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This classic novel of farmers, outlaws, and forbidden romance beautifully evokes seventeenth-century rural life in England's West Country.
Amidst the social and religious upheaval of seventeenth-century England, the once-noble Doone family has been transformed. Now a notorious clan of outlaws, the Doones show their victims no mercy-a lesson the yeoman John Ridd learns when they murder his father. Though he longs for revenge, John must continue to...
4) Lorna Doone
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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A young man is sworn to destroy the Doones who killed his father, but falls in love with a beautiful member of the Doone clan.
5) Lorna Doone
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A young man is sworn to destroy the Doones who killed his father, but falls in love with a beautiful member of the Doone clan.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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A young woman and her sisters discover love and hatred; the story of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's marriage; a girl becomes a matchmaker and discovers love herself; an orphan becomes a governess; a man falls in love with a woman who is the head of the family that killed his father; a British aristocrat becomes a secret fighter against the French Revolution; a man must overcome the schemes of his rivals to find his true love; the knight Wilfred...