Set in the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth, in wild, hilly Exmoor, England (not that I know anything about Exmoor, but that’s the impression I got), Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor weaves together history, legend, and fiction.

Lorna Doone is, I think, about the length of Dicken’s David Copperfield or Our Mutual Friend; a longish book, but not to be compared to War and Peace or The Count of Monte Cristo.

It’s also a fairly slow-paced book, with a plot that only has rare cliff-hanger moments.  I doubt it would hold the interest of a younger reader.  I give it roughly a 17+ age range.

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