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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, by R. D. Blackmore. A freely-licensed classic (Project Gutenberg), reformatted for the Smithbook reader. Subjects: Exmoor (England), Historical fiction, Love stories, Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685. Buy it once and read on any device. No subscription required.
ELEMENTS OF EDUCATION If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, John Ridd, of the parish of Oare, in the county of Somerset, yeoman and churchwarden, have seen and had a share in some doings of this neighborhood, which I will try to set down in order, God sparing my life and memory. And they who light upon this book should bear in mind not only that I write for the clearing of our parish from ill fame and calumny, but also a thing which will, I trow, appear too often in it, to wit--
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