A Tangled Web - Montgomery, L. M.

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Résumé :
The beloved author of Anne of Green Gables tells the classic tale of two remarkable families bound together by an uncommon legacy. Through the years, sixty Darks have married sixty Penhallows. Now the matriarch of the family has left a most unusual inheritance--an old brown jug. For a year the jug works its magic until the family learns of its final secret. A Bantam Starfire Book.

Biographie:
The best-known works by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, also known by her pen as L M Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942), include a number of novels, essays, short tales, and poems that began with Anne of Green Gables in 1908. Along with 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 articles, she also authored 20 novels. The novel Anne of Green Gables was an instant hit, and the titular character, the orphan Anne Shirley, helped make Lucy Maud Montgomery famous and earned her a global following. The majority of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and those parts of Canada's tiniest province-specifically, Green Gables farm, which served as the inspiration for Prince Edward Island National Park-became literary landmarks and well-liked tourist destinations. In 1935, she received the title of officer of the Order of the British Empire. Scholars and readers from all over the world have read and studied Montgomery's writings, journals, and correspondence. The University of Prince Edward Island's L. M. Montgomery Institute is in charge of doing academic research into L. M. Montgomery's life, works, culture, and influence. On November 30, 1874, Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island (now New London)....

Sommaire:
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), often published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist whose fiction made Prince Edward Island one of the most recognisable literary landscapes in the English-speaking world. Born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, and raised largely in Cavendish, Montgomery drew deeply on rural community life, memory, landscape, family feeling, imagination, and the emotional education of young women. Her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables brought her international fame and introduced Anne Shirley, one of the most enduring figures in children's and classic literature.Montgomery's achievement extends well beyond Anne herself. She wrote twenty novels and hundreds of short stories and poems, creating a body of work that includes the Anne books, the Emily of New Moon trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea. Her fiction remains valued for its vivid sense of place, strong characterisation, emotional clarity, humour, romantic feeling, and attention to the inner lives of girls and women. For readers of classic Canadian fiction, women's writing, regional literature, children's classics, and early twentieth-century short fiction, Montgomery remains a major and highly discoverable author....