The Complete Emily Starr Trilogy: Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest (Unabridged) (Annotated): Enriched Edition. An Orphan Girl's Coming of Age on Prince Edward Island

The Complete Emily Starr Trilogy gathers Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, and Emily's Quest, tracing an orphaned girl's passage from wounded childhood to artistic self-command. Set amid the farms, parlors, schools, and shorelines of Prince Edward Island, the novels combine Bildungsroman, Künstlerroman, romance, and domestic fiction. Montgomery's prose is lyrical, ironic, and psychologically alert, balancing Gothic shadows and comic social observation with a sustained meditation on vocation, imagination, and the costs of becoming a writer. Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for Anne of Green Gables, drew deeply on her own Island upbringing, early bereavements, journal-keeping, teaching experience, and lifelong literary ambition. Emily Starr is often read as Montgomery's most autobiographical heroine: proud, sensitive, disciplined, and fiercely committed to language. Through Emily's manuscripts, rejections, friendships, and inward "flash" of visionary perception, Montgomery revisits the emotional sources of her art with unusual candor. This unabridged trilogy is warmly recommended to readers who value coming-of-age fiction with intellectual seriousness and emotional delicacy. It will especially reward admirers of classic Canadian literature, women's writing, and novels about artistic formation, offering both enchantment and a clear-eyed portrait of creative persistence.

This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions. - The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing. - A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation. - A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists. - A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths. - Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts. - Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.

© 2015 e-artnow (E-bog): 9788026838890

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E-bog: 2. juni 2015