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Other works of Blackmore which will repay the reader are Clara Vaughan , his first novel, The Maid of Sker , Springhaven , Perlycross , and Tales from the Telling House ; but none of these, though he counted them his best work, has met with the same favor as Lorna Doone.
To this day there are lively controversies whether he worked up the Doone story from local tradition or made it "out of his own head." And there is hardly a book of his last thirty years' production, from Clara Vaughan to Perlycross, which has not vigour, variety, character, "race" enough for half a dozen.
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