R D Blackmore: 47 books

Cripps, the Carrier  A Woodland Tale   CHAPTER I.  THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY. The little village of Beckley lies, or rather lay many years ago, in the quiet embrace of old Stow Wood, well known to every Oxford man who loves the horn or fusil. This wood or forest...

In the year 1835, the Rev. Philip Penniloe was Curate-in-charge of Perlycross, a village in a valley of the Blackdown Range. It was true that the Rector, the Rev. John Chevithorne, M.A., came twice every year to attend to his tithes; but otherwise he never thought of interfering, and would rather...

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by David Penn. One winter’s day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone...

Set in rural Oxfordshire, Cripps, the Carrier centers around a diabolical kidnapping plot set in motion by nefarious lawyer Luke Sharp. However, an eccentric salt-of-the-earth type named Cripps catches wind of the scheme. Will he be able to stymie Sharp's crime before it's too late?

UNCLE CORNY MY KITTY THE TIMBER-BRIDGE PEACHES, AND PEACHING A LITTLE TIFF THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE DE GUSTIBUS BAD COUNSEL A DOG VIOLATE AN UPWARD STROKE THE FINE ARTS AN EMPTY PILE MY UNCLE BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A MORAL MORAL SUPPORT TRUE LOVE TRUE FATHER FALSE MOTHER DOE DEM. ROE AUNT PARSLOW A TULIP...

I do not mean to describe myself. Already I feel that the personal pronoun will appear too often in these pages. Knowing the faults of my character almost as well as my best friends know them, I shall attempt to hide them no more than would those beloved ones. Enough of this: the story I have to tell...

Retold for Learners of English by David PennOne winters day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones.At home there...

In the days when England trusted mainly to the vigor and valor of one man, against a world of enemies, no part of her coast was in greater peril than the fair vale of Springhaven. But lying to the west of the narrow seas, and the shouts both of menace and vigilance, the quiet little village in the tranquil valley forbore to be uneasy.