Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <p><br/></p> <h1> LORNA DOONE, <br/> <br/> A ROMANCE OF EXMOOR </h1> <p><br/></p> <h2> by R. D. Blackmore </h2> <p><br/></p> <hr /> <p><SPAN name="link2H_PREF" id="link2H_PREF"></SPAN> <br/> <br/></p> <h2> Preface </h2> <p>This work is called a 'romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.</p> <p>And yet he thinks that the outlines are filled in more carefully, and the situations (however simple) more warmly coloured and quickened, than a reader would expect to find in what is called a 'legend.'</p> <p>And he knows that any son of Exmoor, chancing on this volume, cannot fail to bring to mind the nurse-tales of his childhood&mdash;the savage deeds of the outlaw Doones in the depth of Bagworthy Forest, the beauty of the hapless maid brought up in the midst of them, the plain John Ridd's Herculean power, and (memory's too congenial food) the exploits of Tom Faggus.</p> <p>March, 1869.</p> <p><br/></p> <hr /> <p><br/></p> <blockquote> <p><big><b>CONTENTS</b></big></p> <p><br/> <SPAN href="#link2H_PREF"> Preface </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0001"> CHAPTER I </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0002"> CHAPTER II </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0003"> CHAPTER III </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0004"> CHAPTER IV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0005"> CHAPTER V </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0006"> CHAPTER VI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0007"> CHAPTER VII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0008"> CHAPTER VIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0009"> CHAPTER IX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0010"> CHAPTER X </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0011"> CHAPTER XI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0012"> CHAPTER XII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0013"> CHAPTER XIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0014"> CHAPTER XIV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0015"> CHAPTER XV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0016"> CHAPTER XVI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0017"> CHAPTER XVII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0018"> CHAPTER XVIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0019"> CHAPTER XIX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0020"> CHAPTER XX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0021"> CHAPTER XXI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0022"> CHAPTER XXII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0023"> CHAPTER XXIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0024"> CHAPTER XXIV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0025"> CHAPTER XXV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0026"> CHAPTER XXVI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0027"> CHAPTER XXVII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0028"> CHAPTER XXVIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0029"> CHAPTER XXIX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0030"> CHAPTER XXX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0031"> CHAPTER XXXI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0032"> CHAPTER XXXII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0033"> CHAPTER XXXIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0034"> CHAPTER XXXIV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0035"> CHAPTER XXXV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0036"> CHAPTER XXXVI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0037"> CHAPTER XXXVII</SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0038"> CHAPTER XXXVIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0039"> CHAPTER XXXIX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0040"> CHAPTER XL </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0041"> CHAPTER XLI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0042"> CHAPTER XLII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0043"> CHAPTER XLIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0044"> CHAPTER XLIV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0045"> CHAPTER XLV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0046"> CHAPTER XLVI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0047"> CHAPTER XLVII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0048"> CHAPTER XLVIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0049"> CHAPTER XLIX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0050"> CHAPTER L </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0051"> CHAPTER LI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0052"> CHAPTER LII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0053"> CHAPTER LIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0054"> CHAPTER LIV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0055"> CHAPTER LV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0056"> CHAPTER LVI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0057"> CHAPTER LVII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0058"> CHAPTER LVIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0059"> CHAPTER LIX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0060"> CHAPTER LX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0061"> CHAPTER LXI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0062"> CHAPTER LXII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0063"> CHAPTER LXIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0064"> CHAPTER LXIV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0065"> CHAPTER LXV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0066"> CHAPTER LXVI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0067"> CHAPTER LXVII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0068"> CHAPTER LXVIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0069"> CHAPTER LXIX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0070"> CHAPTER LXX </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0071"> CHAPTER LXXI </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0072"> CHAPTER LXXII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0073"> CHAPTER LXXIII </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0074"> CHAPTER LXXIV </SPAN><br/><br/> <SPAN href="#link2HCH0075"> CHAPTER LXXV </SPAN></p> </blockquote> <p><br/></p> <hr /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />