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Rilla of Ingleside

(Anne of Green Gables, No. 8)

By Lucy M. Montgomery

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| Paperback | 9780553269222

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"Very good friends, believe me," said Miss Cornelia emphatically. "I hear all about the doings of the young fry." "I have no doubt that Mary Vance sees that you do, Mrs. Marshall Elliott," said Susan significantly, "but I think it is a shame to talk about children making matches." "Children! Jem is Continue

"Very good friends, believe me," said Miss Cornelia emphatically. "I hear all about the doings of the young fry." "I have no doubt that Mary Vance sees that you do, Mrs. Marshall Elliott," said Susan significantly, "but I think it is a shame to talk about children making matches." "Children! Jem is twenty-one and Faith is nineteen," retorted Miss Cornelia. "You must not forget, Susan, that we old folks are not the only grown-up people in the world." Outraged Susan, who detested any reference to her age - not from vanity but from a haunting dread that people might come to think her too old to work - returned to her "Notes." "'Carl Meredith and Shirley Blythe came home last Friday evening from Queen's Academy. We understand that Carl will be in charge of the school at Harbour Head next year and we are sure he will be a popular and successful teacher.'" "He will teach the children all there is to know about bugs, anyhow," said Miss Cornelia. "He is through with Queen's now and Mr. Meredith and Rosemary wanted him to go right on to Redmond in the fall, but Carl has a very independent streak in him and means to earn part of his own way through college. He'll be all the better for it." "'Walter Blythe, who has been teaching for the past two years at Lowbridge, has resigned,'" read Susan. "'He intends going to Redmond this fall.'" "Is Walter quite strong enough for Redmond yet?" queried Miss Cornelia anxiously. "We hope that he will be by the fall," said Mrs. Blythe. "An idle summer in the open air and sunshine will do a great deal for him." "Typhoid is a hard thing to get over," said Miss Cornelia emphatically, "especially when one has had such a close shave as Walter had. I think he'd do well to stay out of college another year. But then he's so ambitious. Are Di and Nan going too?"

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    There is something of Rose in Bloom, in this novel; and - though it is far better than Rainbow Valley - somehow it confirms that Montgomery is much less clever than Alcott in writing sequels. Probably it is the fact that everything is already set and announced, and no surprise comes to reader out of ... (continue)

    There is something of Rose in Bloom, in this novel; and - though it is far better than Rainbow Valley - somehow it confirms that Montgomery is much less clever than Alcott in writing sequels. Probably it is the fact that everything is already set and announced, and no surprise comes to reader out of the developing of the plot, since both Jem's and Walter's destinies have been clearly enough foreshadowed in Anne of Ingleside. However, if on the one hand one can enjoy Montgomery's usual sharp way of writing, on the other hand, all Rilla's adventures finally reaveal themselves as pale shadows of her mother's ones, which the reader has already been acquainted with in much more colourful details in the first two books of the Anne's series. A good entertaining book, but nothing more.

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  • In my opinion, one of the best of the Anne books. The story of Anne & Gilbert's youngest daughter and her trials and triumphs during WWI. A superb, touching novel.

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    guaddess said on Aug 18, 2007 | 2 feedbacks

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