R. D. Blackmore

Chapter I 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 neighbourhood which, God helping me, I will now relate. My father, John Ridd the elder, being a...

- 1 The end of school days I am John Ridd, a farmer of the village of Oare in Somerset, and I have a story to teli you. It is about somé things that happened to me in my younger days. On the 29th November 1673, when I was twelve years old, John Fry, a worker from our family's farm, came to collect...

Introduction Loma Doom, A Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel set in the South West of England during the seventeenth century at the turbulent time of the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth (1685) when the duke, an illegitimate son of Charles II and pretender to the English throne, landed in...

Introduction Loma Doone, A Romance ofExmoor is an historical novel set in the South West of England during the seventeenth century at the turbulent time of the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth (1685) when the duke, an illegitimate son of Charles 11 and pretender to the English throne, landed in...