Richard Doddridge Blackmore – Lorna Doone

Автор: Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Год выхода: 2012

Издательство: Oxford University Press

ISBN:

9780194786485

Книга из раздела: Иностранные языки, Зарубежная образовательная литература, Книги, Литерат.

 

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«Richard Doddridge Blackmore – Lorna Doone»

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…