R D Blackmore: 47 books
George Bowring: A Tale of Cader Idris
From "Slain by the Doones"
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
English author R.D. Blackmore is best remembered for his popular novel Lorna Doone, a sweeping romance and action-adventure tale. This short story returns to the world Blackmore created in that novel, depicting a tragic episode that unfolds in a majestic mountainous region of Wales.
The Complete Popular Children Fantasy Magic Books Anthologies (27 in 1)
Kidnapped Black Beauty Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pinocchio Little Lord Fauntleroy Legends of King Arthur and His Knights A Little Princess Pollyanna Voyages Story of Dr. Doctor Dolittle Moonfleet Robinson Crusoe Gulliver's Travels Andersen's
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This is a perfect collection for a long journey, rainy days, or for any quiet moments. This wonderful collection of books will bring adults back to their childhoods and create many happy memories for middle and young adult readers. These classics include books of adventure, animals, family life, fantasy...
Frida, or The Lover's Leap
A Legend Of The West Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Fans of R. D. Blackmore's masterpiece of historical fiction, Lorna Doone, will love this novel, which also takes place in 17th century England and follows the fate of a plucky female protagonist who hopes to find true love amidst a brutal feud between warring tribes.
Mary Anerley
A Yorkshire Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Take a trip back in time to nineteenth-century Yorkshire in this emotionally engaging tale from British author R.D. Blackmore. Mary Anerley follows the life of the protagonist of the same name as she faces down the challenges of coming of age in an isolated rural environment.
by R. D. Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
MY name is Christopher Orchardson, of Sunbury in Middlesex; and I have passed through a bitter trouble, which I will try to describe somehow, both for my wife’s sake and my own, as well as to set us straight again in the opinion of our neighbours, which I have always valued highly, though sometimes...
by R. D. Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Set in the Exmoor region among the moors and hills of southwest England, R. D. Blackmore's novel Slain by the Doones is an effortless and exciting amalgamation of action, adventure and romance, served up with a heavy dose of local culture and custom.
by R. D. Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
“NEVER wur any luck in a wadding, as wur put off from app’inted day. For why? Why, because it be flying in the vace of the Lard, as hath app’inted ’un.”
by M.J. Porteus, R D Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
On the border of the English counties of Devon and Somerset, John Ridd’s father is a yeoman farmer murdered in cold blood by a member of the notorious Doone family. John is besotted with Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of the Doone clan, who is to be forced to marry the evil Carver Doone. John...
by M.J. Porteus, R D Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
On the border of the English counties of Devon and Somerset, John Ridd’s father is a yeoman farmer murdered in cold blood by a member of the notorious Doone family. John is besotted with Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of the Doone clan, who is to be forced to marry the evil Carver Doone. John...
by M.J. Porteus, R D Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
On the border of the English counties of Devon and Somerset, John Ridd’s father is a yeoman farmer murdered in cold blood by a member of the notorious Doone family. John is besotted with Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of the Doone clan, who is to be forced to marry the evil Carver Doone. John...
by M.J. Porteus, R D Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
On the border of the English counties of Devon and Somerset, John Ridd’s father is a yeoman farmer murdered in cold blood by a member of the notorious Doone family. John is besotted with Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of the Doone clan, who is to be forced to marry the evil Carver Doone. John...
by R.D. Blackmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Richard Doddridge Blackmore was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer of the movement in fiction. He won acclaim for bright descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background...
Crocker's Hole
From "Slain by the Doones"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In this humorous excerpt from the novel Slain by the Doones, the protagonist has a very memorable experience trying to capture and vanquish a prize fish that seems to be quite unwilling to part with its watery home. It's a small masterpiece that highlights Blackmore's unparalleled skill with local color and country folk.
by R. D. BLACKMORE
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
In the fresh young vigour of an April sun, the world has a cheerful aspect, and is doubly bright, and vastly warmer, when beheld through good flint-glass. Especially while the east winds hold, which never now forget to hold the spring of England, heart and throat. But forty years ago, there were...