Alice Lorraine A Tale Of The South Downs

Download or read book Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs written by R. D. Blackmore and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Doddridge Blackmore was a well-known English novelist of the second half of the nineteenth century. He got famous for vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. "Alice Lorraine: a tale of the South Downs" is his novel, published in 1875. Set in Sussex and Spain during the Napoleonic Wars, the book recounts the divergent adventures of the eponymous heroine and her brother in their efforts to save the noble Lorraine family from ruin.