A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. 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 valley – a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones.
At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But in the years to come he meets Lorna Doone, with her lovely smile and big dark eyes. And soon he is deeply, hopelessly, in love…
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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.
