Lorna Doone
- Author
- Snoozecast
- Published
- Fri 22 May 2020
- Episode Link
- https://shows.acast.com/snoozecast/episodes/6155f24aa603860012aedf60
We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening to "Lorna Doone", a Romance of Exmoor, a novel published in 1869 and written by English author Richard Doodridge Blackmore. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.
"Lorna Doone" is based on a group of historical characters set in the late 17th century. John Ridd is the son of a farmer who is murdered by a member of the Doone clan.
The Doone’s were once noble but now outlaws. John falls in love with a girl named Lorna who turns out to be from this very clan he loathes.
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