Author: Lorna B. Mack
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1463416105
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Al Lauer
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465315330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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As a 350 pound semi-recluse with a penchant for testicular blackmail, Lorna Questo’s life is simple and cheerless. Her world is populated by invidious twin brothers, a gay business partner, Boy Scouts and a host of family malcontents. Romance doesn’t come readily to a woman who crushes seats, establishes eating records and can render a grown man totally helpless. Frank Treble’s past is sprinkled with lies and garnished by tales of sordid sex. Lorna doesn’t care. Having been at the mercy of a thin society that decried her as a freak, she quickly welcomes Frank into her heart. Frank gives her love and endless possibilities. The birth of the Treble’s first child, the discovery of Lorna’s poetry, the “feel good” 1980’s conspire to change their lives irreparably.

Author: Blackmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: R. D. Blackmore
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440626901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is discovered by the beautiful Lorna. In time their childish fantasies blossom into mature love—a bond that will inspire John to rescue his beloved from the ravages of a stormy winter, rekindling a conflict with his archrival, Carver Doone, that climaxes in heartrending violence. Beloved for its portrait of star-crossed lovers and its surpassing descriptions of the English countryside, Lorna Doone is R. D. Blackmore’s enduring masterpiece. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author: Richard D. Blackmore
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.

Author: R.D. BLACKMORE
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 734

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Author: R. L. Blackmore
Publisher: Joe Books Ltd
ISBN: 1987955544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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John Ridd has worked hard to build a respectable life as a farmer when he falls in love with Lorna Doone, a member of the clan responsible for the death of his father. Desperate to save his love from Carver, to whom she's betrothed, John helps Lorna escape, only to uncover the truth about her parentage, which changes everything for them both.

Author: Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465508937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1196

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If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, John Ridd, of the parish of Oare, in the county of Somerset, yeoman and churchwarden, have seen and had a share in some doings of this neighborhood, which I will try to set down in order, God sparing my life and memory. And they who light upon this book should bear in mind not only that I write for the clearing of our parish from ill fame and calumny, but also a thing which will, I trow, appear too often in it, to wit—that I am nothing more than a plain unlettered man, not read in foreign languages, as a gentleman might be, nor gifted with long words (even in mine own tongue), save what I may have won from the Bible or Master William Shakespeare, whom, in the face of common opinion, I do value highly. In short, I am an ignoramus, but pretty well for a yeoman. My father being of good substance, at least as we reckon in Exmoor, and seized in his own right, from many generations, of one, and that the best and largest, of the three farms into which our parish is divided (or rather the cultured part thereof), he John Ridd, the elder, churchwarden, and overseer, being a great admirer of learning, and well able to write his name, sent me his only son to be schooled at Tiverton, in the county of Devon. For the chief boast of that ancient town (next to its woollen staple) is a worthy grammar-school, the largest in the west of England, founded and handsomely endowed in the year 1604 by Master Peter Blundell, of that same place, clothier. Here, by the time I was twelve years old, I had risen into the upper school, and could make bold with Eutropius and Cæsar—by aid of an English version—and as much as six lines of Ovid. Some even said that I might, before manhood, rise almost to the third form, being of a persevering nature; albeit, by full consent of all (except my mother), thick-headed. But that would have been, as I now perceive, an ambition beyond a farmer's son; for there is but one form above it, and that made of masterful scholars, entitled rightly "monitors".