Lorna Doone

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Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Preface

This work is called a ’romance,’ because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.

And yet he thinks that the outlines are filled in more carefully, and the situations (however simple) more warmly coloured and quickened, than a reader would expect to find in what is called a ’legend.’

And he knows that any son of Exmoor, chancing on this volume, cannot fail to bring to mind the nurse-tales of his childhood—the savage deeds of the outlaw Doones in the depth of Bagworthy Forest, the beauty of the hapless maid brought up in the midst of them, the plain John Ridd’s Herculean power, and (memory’s too congenial food) the exploits of Tom Faggus.

March, 1869.

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Chicago: Richard Doddridge Blackmore, "Preface," Lorna Doone, trans. Evans, Sebastian in Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor Original Sources, accessed April 23, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4M92KQ1Z86X3JV8.

MLA: Blackmore, Richard Doddridge. "Preface." Lorna Doone, translted by Evans, Sebastian, in Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor, Original Sources. 23 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4M92KQ1Z86X3JV8.

Harvard: Blackmore, RD, 'Preface' in Lorna Doone, trans. . cited in , Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor. Original Sources, retrieved 23 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4M92KQ1Z86X3JV8.