This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story. Sally Shuttleworth's introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a startling sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian values, and portrays a `manly' hero constantlyhaving to prove his masculinity to himself. | Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore, Paperback | Indigo Chapters