Lorna Doone

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R. D. Blackmore. Lorna Doone

LORNA DOONE

– 1 — The end of school days

– 2 — A boy and a girl

– 3 — Back to Doone valley

– 4 — Lorna’s story

– 5 — To London

– 6 — Lorna’s new troubles

– 7 — Lorna leaves the valley

– 8 — The attack

– 9 — Lorna’s true story

– 10 — Gone

– 11 — Tom Faggus in danger

– 12 — Love and revenge

– 13 — The last battle

GLOSSARY

Lorna Doone. ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES. Before Reading

ACTIVITIES. While Reading

ACTIVITIES. After Reading

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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I am John Ridd, a farmer of the village of Oare in Somerset, and I have a story to tell you. It is about some 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 me from my school at Tiverton. He rode his horse up to the gate, leading my own little horse behind him. He was two weeks early, so I knew something was wrong.

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When I had packed my bags and said goodbye to my friends, I got on my horse and we started the journey home.

It was a long journey from Tiverton to Oare, and in places the road was very bad. John Fry still would not tell me why he had come to collect me, or answer my questions about Father. He looked unhappy about something, but I tried to hope for the best, as boys always do.

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