Richard D. Blackmore

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

ISBN: 978-1-59625-466-4
EAN: 9781596254664
Produktnummer: 35859811
Verlag: Neeland Media LLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 388 S.
Plattform: EPUB

A Romance of Exmoor

Ebook (EPUB Format)

Richard Blackmore (1825-1900) was a minor historical novelist whose works have been somewhat overlooked by the reading masses, but whose talent for characterization and setting rank his words among the finest of nineteenth-century English literature. Lorna Doone, Blackmore's acknowledged masterpiece, attained belated popularity a little more than a year after its publication. Rumors began that the novel was about the recent marriage of the marquis of Lorna into the family of Queen Victoria, leading to a sudden influx of sales and praise from both critics and the reading public. Although the rumors were unfounded, the novel became a classic of… Mehr