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Kilmeny of the Orchard Lucy Maud Montgomery
ISBN: 9780553213775 Год издания: 1989 Издательство: Starfire Язык: Английский РазвернутьKilmeny of the Orchard is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is the story of a young man named Eric Marshall who goes to teach a school on Prince Edward Island and meets Kilmeny, a mute girl who has perfect hearing. He sees her when he is walking in the woods and hears her playing the violin. He visits her a number of times and gradually falls in love with her. When he proposes she rejects him, even though she loves him in return, believing that her disability will only hinder his life if they were married, despite his protests that it wouldn't matter at all. Meanwhile, Eric's good friend David who is a renowned throat doctor, comes to the…
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The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Volume I: 1889-1910 Lucy Maud Montgomery
ISBN: 9780195405033, 019540503X Год издания: 1986 Издательство: Oxford University Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьA bestseller in Canada, this book will fascinate the legions of devoted readers of Anne of Green Gables and Montgomery's other Anne books. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) kept extensive journals for most of her life, beginning them in 1889 when she was fourteen and continuing them until shortly before her death. Spontaneous and frank, they are unusual for their narrative interest: Montgomery's gifts as a storyteller are as much in evidence here as in her novels. This first volume takes her to 1910, the year before her marriage, and culminates with the publication of Anne of Green Gables. The autobiographical content will intrigue every…
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The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Volume II: 1910-1921 Lucy Maud Montgomery
ISBN: 9780195405866, 0195405862 Год издания: 1988 Издательство: Oxford University Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьAn instant best-seller in Canada, the first volume of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery recorded the growing power and imagination of one of the world's best-loved writers, the author of the classic novel for children, Anne of Green Gables. The London Free Press hailed it as "pure gold, the deeply felt, finely evocative rendering of years both heartbreakingly sad and splendidly triumphant," and The Montreal Gazette termed it "one of the most haunting documents in Canadian literary history." The second volume promises to be equally intriguing and powerful. Ranging from 1910 to 1921, Montgomery's revealing journal documents a time of…
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The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Volume III: 1921-1929 Lucy Maud Montgomery
ISBN: 9780195409369, 0195409361 Год издания: 1993 Издательство: Oxford University Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьLucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), the author of the classic novel for children, Anne of Green Gables, kept extensive journals for most of her life, beginning them in 1889 when she was fourteen and continuing them until shortly before her death. An instant bestseller in Canada, the first volume of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery covers the years up to 1910 and culminates in the publication of Anne of Green Gables. The second volume (1910-1921) portrays Montgomery in the midst of great upheaval, both in her life and in the world around her. Now, the long-awaited third volume brings us through her middle years, a time when…
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Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Volume IV: 1929-1935 Lucy Maud Montgomery
ISBN: 9780195413816, 0195413814 Год издания: 1999 Издательство: Oxford University Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьOf the earlier volumes of L. M. Montgomery's journals, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields has written: "These diaries possess the crisp, honest, unsparing voice of a real woman who fought all her life to bring her two selves together: the celebrated writer and the unloved child." Now comes the much anticipated fourth, and penultimate, volume in the series, covering the tumultuous period from 1929 to 1935. By 1929 Montgomery was 54 and known world-wide as the author of Anne of Green Gables. Yet with the stock market crash came a severe drop in her royalties and other troubling financial problems. Tremendous personal difficulties…
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The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. Volume V: 1935-1942 Lucy Maud Montgomery
ISBN: 9780195421163, 0195421167 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: Oxford University Press Язык: Английский Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), the author of the classic novel for children, Anne of Green Gables, kept extensive journals for most of her life, beginning them in 1889 when she was fourteen and continuing them until shortly before her death. The much anticipated final volume of The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery caps the publication of the unique and powerfully told life-story of this gifted writer. Providing an intimate portrait of the last years of her life as well as a fascinating social history of life in a Toronto suburb, this final volume covers the years 1935 to 1942, the year of Montgomery's death.
