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LalaithUrwen
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Posted: Mon 26 Apr , 2010 3:29 am
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:( I am going to have to look for her biography. (I read so many biographies lately. When real people have such interesting lives, who needs fiction?)

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I've spoken to two people (both literary majors) that had to either abandon or take long breaks from reading her diaries because they were so depressing.

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Well, I'm glad Lalaith agreed with me that The Blythes are mentioned FAR too often. It was absurd. And there is probably something to the idea that Montgomery was (maybe unconsciously?) sick of Anne by the time she wrote this book.

A couple of the stories were pretty good, but they needed severe editing.

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Posted: Mon 26 Apr , 2010 2:03 pm
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Agreed. I'll bet that she would have done a good job with them, too, if she hadn't decided to kill herself instead. :(

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Just finished "Rainbow Valley". The ending was powerful - where she hinted about what was to come (The Great War). All in all, though, it was "enjoyable" rather than "great" for me.

There's a new hardcover edition of Rilla of Ingleside coming out on 26 October. I'm going to wait to get that, rather than a cheapo paperback. And when I've finished that, I can finally get started on the book that this thread is about. :D

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Posted: Mon 27 Sep , 2010 5:52 pm
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:) I've been thinking that it would be nice to update my collection of her books. I have so many, but they are all the cheapo paperbacks, which are now yellowing with age and no longer feel nice under my fingers, if that makes sense. (I do, however, have one old copy of Green Gables that I found at a flea market.) Anyway, nice hardbacks would be awesome. I'll have to start keeping any eye out for them at the half-price bookstore.

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I've just started Rilla of Ingleside, and learned two interesting facts from the Forward of my edition: although this book was takes place chronologically later than the other "Anne" books (apart from The Blythes are Quoted), Montgomery wrote Windy Poplars and Anne of Ingleside more than 15 years later, even though they deal with an earlier period in Anne's life. I've been reading them in the chronological order, and assumed they were written in the same order.

The other thing is that in the 1970 edition, a good chunk was cut out without any indication (to the tune of 4350 words! :Q ) and these cuts continued in the 1985 edition. I'm glad I waited for this new hardcover edition to come out before buying it!

I'm just curious - what edition do others in this thread have?

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Mine are a motley bunch. A couple are old hardcovers and several are paperbacks in boxed sets of 3. Which book had the cuts? I'm curious.

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Hmmm, now I'll have to go look and see. I wonder if I have an abridged version after all...


I have a Bantam edition that says 4 printings through 1987. (That's the last date I can find.)

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It's Rilla of Ingleside that had the cuts and I was asking about. I wouldn't be surprised if the other books were heavily cut too, since my editions of Windy Poplars to Rainbow Valley are slim paperbacks, and my new hardcover Rilla of Ingleside is a quite thick hardcover.

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Yes, this was my copy of Rilla.

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I'm curious. I'll dig my books out later. I wonder what's missing?

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I'm curious too. I also wonder what the supposedly "gory" bits were that were excised from Windy Willows.
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Yes, this was my copy of Rilla.
Which? The complete or abridged version?

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This is passing strange. We must get to the bottom of this!

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Well, I don't know! LOL! :LMAO: You were talking about how some versions of Rilla are abridged, and I was saying that I have a 1987 version. So I don't know if it's abridged or not. :scratch:

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I think you have the abridged version. If it's not before 1970, or if it's not the new edition that just came out, it's missing about 4350 words.

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Okay, well, that's weird. I'm going to have to look for an older copy or buy the new one. My copies are looking pretty bad anyway; they are getting yellowed and brittle. (They were cheap paperbacks 20 years ago.)

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I am appalled that the books were abridged. Why on earth would anyone do that?

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To save printing costs for cheap paperbacks?

This is the new edition of Rilla that just came out last month

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Just finished Rilla of Ingleside. I think I like it better even than House of Dreams. Not only because of the story itself, but also because it gives me a glimpse into what life was like in those days. Little details jump out at me, like when Susan made a reference to newspapers partially "asterisking out" naughty words. I thought that was a more recent practice, but I was wrong.

I've now ordered the book that this thread is named after. I know it was somewhat of a disappointment to some of you, but I still want to read it for myself.

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