Polish resistance fighters took “Green Gables” with them to the front the novel became a part of the Japanese school curriculum in the orphan-filled postwar 1950s a television show based on the series aired in Sri Lanka and the book occupies a pre-eminent place in Canada, where “Green Gables” is taught in school and featured on postage stamps - a cultural export matched only by hockey and the Mounties.
The book has sold over 50 million copies and has been translated into at least 36 languages. Over a period of years and a nearly endless series of scrapes - falling off roofs, dyeing her hair green, accidentally intoxicating her best friend - Anne transforms the hearts of everyone around her while making a home for herself. She is nearly 110 years old.Īnne Shirley is the heroine of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved 1908 novel, “Anne of Green Gables,” the chronicle of a spirited but previously unloved orphan taken into the town of Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, Canada, by the unmarried, middle-aged siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. She can heal an infant with the croup, but she “cannot tie down to anything so unromantic as dishwashing” at “thrilling” moments or be asked to eat anything “so unromantic when one is in affliction.” She is small and freckled and indefatigable. She is perpetually seeking “kindred spirits.” She loves trees and stories and nut-brown hair and will burn whatever is in the oven while dreaming about trees and stories and nut-brown hair. An inadvertent feminist, an unrepentant romantic, a hot-tempered sprite, she’s impulsive, she’s dramatic, she’s smart, she’s funny, she insists on spelling her name with an E at the end because it “looks so much nicer.” She speaks in exclamation marks and italics even when in the “depths of despair,” which, as an abused child, she knows a thing or two about.
A lively and optimistic survivor with a feverish imagination and unchecked enthusiasms, she is a redheaded outsider who becomes an insider without forsaking her peculiarities or her intelligence. Do you know Anne Shirley? You would like her.
0 kommentar(er)
