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"Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor" by R.
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- Author
- R. D. Blackmore
- Form
- novel
- Catalog year
- 1869
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ELEMENTS OF EDUCATION 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 …
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