Lorna doone: a romance of exmoor, paperback/r. d. blackmore

This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story.

Sally Shuttleworths introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a startling sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian values, and portrays a manly hero constantly having to prove his masculinity to himself.

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