Lorna Doone (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. A yeoman's courtship amid the Monmouth Rebellion—Exmoor's moorland pastoral of outlaws, vengeance, and the durable truths of land and lawBy R. D. Blackmore
Length6h 36m
About this audiobook
Lorna Doone (1869) is John Ridd's first-person chronicle of love and vengeance on Exmoor. Set amid the Monmouth Rebellion and the Bloody Assizes, it entwines a yeoman's courtship of Lorna—ward of the Doone outlaws—with feud, ambush, and the cadences of rural labor. Blackmore blends Scottian historical romance with Victorian regional realism: melodrama is checked by close observation of weather, waterways, hedgerows, and dialect, making the landscape a moral arena as well as a stage. R. D. Blackmore, an Oxford-trained classicist, brief barrister, and later market gardener in Teddington, drew on a West Country upbringing and Tiverton schooling to anchor the book's topography and folk memory. Legends of the Doone band and tales of Tom Faggus, together with his classical pastoral, shaped cadence and imagery; horticultural practice sharpened his botanical precision. Composed against the vogue for sensation fiction, the novel restores gravity through place and character. For readers who relish the sweep of Scott, the regional depth later associated with Hardy, or finely grained nature writing, Lorna Doone remains rewarding. It is both an engrossing romance and a meditation on community, law, and land—a classic that marries narrative momentum to the durable truths of landscape.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Romance
Length6 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
6Lorna Doone (pt. 2)
2Introduction
7Lorna Doone (pt. 3)
3Synopsis
8Analysis
4Historical Context
9Reflection
5Lorna Doone (pt. 1)
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