Lorna Doone - Longman Classics, Stage 4 Author:R. D. Blackmore, D. K. Swan, D. Anderson Lorna Doone relays the perenially popular story of John Ridd and his love for the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone who was kidnapped as a child by an outlaw family. This version remains the only critical edition of a work which, since 1869, has never gone out of print.