The Annotated Anne of Green GablesOxford University Press, USA, 28 aug 1997 - 496 pagina's Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been a continuous international best-seller, enjoying successful television adaptations on PBS and The Disney Channel, and captivating children and adults alike with the irresistible charms of its remarkable heroine, Anne Shirley. This wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds. Indeed, when Maud Montgomery decided to reject the sermonizing formulas of the children's books of her day, she brought to life a character much closer to Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and Tom Sawyer--also orphans, like Anne--than to the self-sacrificing, conformist heroines then in demand. In doing so, Montgomery subtly questioned the values of her society--the stifling restraints of its religion and most especially its treatment of women--while giving readers all the pleasures of her considerable story-telling gifts.Now, in this first fully annotated edition of Anne of Green Gables, readers will appreciate more clearly than ever before the scope and depth of this extraordinary novel. Editors Margaret Anne Doody, Mary Doody Jones, and Wendy Barry provide a richly illustrated, completely revised text, along with hundreds of notes describing the real-life characters and settings Anne encounters, the autobiographical connections between Anne and Maud Montgomery, and the book's astonishing range of literary, biblical, and mythological references. Additional essays offer fascinating background information on such topics as the geography and settlement of Prince Edward Island (where Anne takes place); the education, orphanages, music, and literature of Anne's time; and the horticulture, homemade artifacts, and food preparation that are so prevalent in the story. Margaret Anne Doody supplies a comprehensive introduction, which situates the novel in its literary and social contexts, explores those aspects of Montgomery's life most relevant to the story, examines revisions in the manuscripts, and provides an overall sense of both the impulses that drove Montgomery to write Anne of Green Gables and the larger concerns it dramatizes so compellingly. This edition also contains a chronology of Montgomery's life, an extensive bibliography, songs and poems that appear in the text, and a selection of original reviews of the book. This wealth of material enables readers to grasp the marvelous multi-layeredness of the novel and to understand more fully its place in both its own time and in ours.Elegantly and beautifully designed, with generous illustrations from previous editions, photographs of the places the novel inhabits, and explanatory drawings that reproduce the texture of Anne's world, The Annotated Anne of Green Gables is a major event in the publishing history of one of the world's most charming stories. |
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... mother dies at the age of twenty - three . Maud goes to live with grandpar- ents Alexander and Lucy Woolner Macneill . 1881 Maud starts school in a one - room school- house in Cavendish . Her father visits the West . 1882 Hugh ...
... mother dies at the age of twenty - three . Maud goes to live with grandpar- ents Alexander and Lucy Woolner Macneill . 1881 Maud starts school in a one - room school- house in Cavendish . Her father visits the West . 1882 Hugh ...
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... mother . Ook of thy wh glad and proud . futhers you comed Mis fre No B. The success of Anne of Green Gables , as instantaneous as it was to be enduring , was a great surprise to its author . In her journal Montgomery expresses amazement ...
... mother . Ook of thy wh glad and proud . futhers you comed Mis fre No B. The success of Anne of Green Gables , as instantaneous as it was to be enduring , was a great surprise to its author . In her journal Montgomery expresses amazement ...
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... mother died ; Maud insisted that she could remember seeing her mother in her coffin . The father gave his child over to the care of her maternal grandparents while he tried a variety of occupations involving sales or shipping . In 1881 ...
... mother died ; Maud insisted that she could remember seeing her mother in her coffin . The father gave his child over to the care of her maternal grandparents while he tried a variety of occupations involving sales or shipping . In 1881 ...
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... mother . And father and I have always been so much to each other . He was so good and kind and tender .... Even when he went so far away and for so many years we never grew apart , as some might have done . We always remained near and ...
... mother . And father and I have always been so much to each other . He was so good and kind and tender .... Even when he went so far away and for so many years we never grew apart , as some might have done . We always remained near and ...
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... her creator are one in experiencing a " starved childhood emotionally . " But Marilla Cuth- bert , who is in some respects a reflection of Grand- mother Macneill , has the rudiments of emotional wisdom and INTRODUCTION 17.
... her creator are one in experiencing a " starved childhood emotionally . " But Marilla Cuth- bert , who is in some respects a reflection of Grand- mother Macneill , has the rudiments of emotional wisdom and INTRODUCTION 17.
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