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''Dariel: a romance of Surrey'' is a novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1897. It is an adventure story set initially in Surrey before the action moves to the Caucasian mountains. The story is narrated by George Cranleigh, a farmer who falls in love with Dariel, the daughter of a Caucasian prince. ''Dariel'' was the last of Blackmore's novels, published just over two years before his death.〔The London Quarterly Review, (1926), page 53〕 ==Plot== The story is narrated by George Cranleigh,〔''The Publisher'', (1897), Volume 14, Issue 67, page 689〕 a younger son of Lord Harold Cranleigh, a destitute landowner in Surrey,〔''The Review of Reviews'', Volume 17, page 88〕 who has been ruined, according to Blackmore, by the "farce of Free-trade."〔(Recent Novels ), ''The Spectator'', page 22, 25 December 1897〕 In the opening chapter George, riding home from market, surprises a maiden of surpassing beauty upon her knees in a ruined chapel.〔''The Athenaeum'', (1897), Vol. 2., page 782〕 She proves to be Dariel, the daughter of Sur Imar, a prince of the Lesghians, a wild tribe of the Caucasus.〔 A blood feud has arisen between Imar and his sister, and so he has, with his daughter, his foster-brother Stepan, and a body of retainers, come to England and settled peaceably in a deserted house in Surrey.〔 Imar resolves to returns to his native land to educate his tribesmen in the lessons of civilisation.〔 George, who has fallen in love with Dariel, follows her to the East.〔(Dariel (1896) ), www.victorianweb.org, retrieved 17 September 2013〕 But Imar's twin-sister Marva, Queen of the Ossets, who is appropriately called by the natives "the Bride of the Devil," plans to kill Prince Imar and wed his daughter Dariel to her son.〔 After weeks of travelling and days full of desperate adventure, George, with the help of miners and Lesghians, rescues Dariel and her father and kills the wicked Princess and her fiendish son.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dariel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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