RARE 1895 Antique book Slain by the Doones GORGEOUS green cover embossing by Blackmore Incredible Victorian gift Lorna Doone

Set against the backdrop of Exmoor, it weaves a tale about the life of Sylvia Ford, a young woman whose father is brutally killed by a group of outlaws .

Blackmore, a popular novelist of the second half of the nineteenth century, often referred to as the "Last Victorian", acted as pioneer of the new romantic movement in fiction that continued with Robert Louis Stevenson and others. He may be said to have done for Devon what Sir Walter Scott did for the Highlands and Hardy for Wessex. Blackmore has been described as "proud, shy, reticent, strong-willed, sweet-tempered, and self-centred."

Though very popular in his time, Blackmore's work has since been altogether ignored, and his entire body of work, save for his magnum opus Lorna Doone, which has enjoyed considerable popularity since its being published, has gone out of publication. Thus his reputation rests chiefly upon this romantic work, in spite of the fact that it was not his favourite.

ABOUT: R.D.Blackmore
Slain By The Doones And Other Stories.
Dodd Mead, 1895

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