Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 4: Lorna Doone by R D Blackmore

Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 4: Lorna Doone by R D Blackmore

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

Richard Doddridge Blackmore was an English novelist who lived from 1825 to 1900. Blackmore was the son of an Anglican curate and was born in Longworth, Berkshire. Blackmore was reared by his aunt for some years after his mother died of typhus before returning to live with his father in Exmoor's rural countryside. As a classics student, he excelled and was awarded a scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1847. While working on his debut novel, Blackmore worked as a tutor before changing careers and enrolling in law school.

But, due to ill health, he returned to teaching and eventually moved to Teddington, a riverside town, with his wife and children. He devoted himself to his work there, and his most successful novel, Lorna Doone: A Tale of Exmoor (1869), was a huge hit. Blackmore spent the rest of his life at Gomer House in Teddington, where he is buried next to his loving wife Lucy. He was a pioneering author whose work inspired Robert Louis Stevenson and Thomas Hardy.

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ISBN 13	9780194791779
ISBN 10	0194791777
Title	Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 4: Lorna Doone
Author	R D Blackmore
Series	Oxford Bookworms Elt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2007-12-20
Number of pages	96
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