Lorna Doone

Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Paul Bril, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Aert Anthoniszoon. Exmoor in the 1680s: the Doones ride down from their valley to rob and murder as they please, and John Ridd — farmer, wrestler, plain narrator — loves the girl they stole as a child. Blackmore gives the landscape as much attention as the lovers, and the great frost of the winter the Doone...