Preface
This work is called a 'romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel.
And yet he thinks that the outlines are filled in more carefully, and the situations (however simple) more warmly coloured and quickened, than a reader would expect to find in what is called a 'legend.'
And he knows that any son of Exmoor, chancing on this volume, cannot fail to bring to mind the nurse-tales of his childhood—the savage deeds of the outlaw Doones in the depth of Bagworthy Forest, the beauty of the hapless maid brought up in the midst of them, the plain John Ridd's Herculean power, and (memory's too congenial food) the exploits of Tom Faggus.
March, 1869.
CONTENTS
[ Preface ]
[ CHAPTER I ]
[ CHAPTER II ]
[ CHAPTER III ]
[ CHAPTER IV ]
[ CHAPTER V ]
[ CHAPTER VI ]
[ CHAPTER VII ]
[ CHAPTER VIII ]
[ CHAPTER IX ]
[ CHAPTER X ]
[ CHAPTER XI ]
[ CHAPTER XII ]
[ CHAPTER XIII ]
[ CHAPTER XIV ]
[ CHAPTER XV ]
[ CHAPTER XVI ]
[ CHAPTER XVII ]
[ CHAPTER XVIII ]
[ CHAPTER XIX ]
[ CHAPTER XX ]
[ CHAPTER XXI ]
[ CHAPTER XXII ]
[ CHAPTER XXIII ]
[ CHAPTER XXIV ]
[ CHAPTER XXV ]
[ CHAPTER XXVI ]
[ CHAPTER XXVII ]
[ CHAPTER XXVIII ]
[ CHAPTER XXIX ]
[ CHAPTER XXX ]
[ CHAPTER XXXI ]
[ CHAPTER XXXII ]
[ CHAPTER XXXIII ]
[ CHAPTER XXXIV ]
[ CHAPTER XXXV ]
[ CHAPTER XXXVI ]
[ CHAPTER XXXVII ]
[ CHAPTER XXXVIII ]
[ CHAPTER XXXIX ]
[ CHAPTER XL ]
[ CHAPTER XLI ]
[ CHAPTER XLII ]
[ CHAPTER XLIII ]
[ CHAPTER XLIV ]
[ CHAPTER XLV ]
[ CHAPTER XLVI ]
[ CHAPTER XLVII ]
[ CHAPTER XLVIII ]
[ CHAPTER XLIX ]
[ CHAPTER L ]
[ CHAPTER LI ]
[ CHAPTER LII ]
[ CHAPTER LIII ]
[ CHAPTER LIV ]
[ CHAPTER LV ]
[ CHAPTER LVI ]
[ CHAPTER LVII ]
[ CHAPTER LVIII ]
[ CHAPTER LIX ]
[ CHAPTER LX ]
[ CHAPTER LXI ]
[ CHAPTER LXII ]
[ CHAPTER LXIII ]
[ CHAPTER LXIV ]
[ CHAPTER LXV ]
[ CHAPTER LXVI ]
[ CHAPTER LXVII ]
[ CHAPTER LXVIII ]
[ CHAPTER LXIX ]
[ CHAPTER LXX ]
[ CHAPTER LXXI ]
[ CHAPTER LXXII ]
[ CHAPTER LXXIII ]
[ CHAPTER LXXIV ]
[ CHAPTER LXXV ]