Mary Marie

Name: Mary Marie
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Eleanor H. Porter
ISBN: 9798874757977

Author: Eleanor H. Porter

Narrator: Anne Hancock

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 04/30/2024

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Eleanor H. Porter’s most famous literary creation is Pollyanna, but she isn’t the only precocious young girl to spring from the author’s pen. Mary Marie Anderson describes herself as “a cross-current and a contradiction", the offspring of incompatible parents who couldn’t even agree about her name. When the two divorce when she is thirteen, Mary Marie is delighted since she’s always liked being different. None of the other girls have two homes and spend six months with each parent! Father will remain in their small town and mother will live in Boston with her family.This exciting development persuades Mary Marie to keep a diary that she plans to turn into a novel. Surely one of her parents will remarry and provide the romance to spice up her story. But adolescence is not an easy time of life, and harsh reality intervenes when she discovers that 1920s America is not always tolerant of divorce. Over time, being fun-loving Marie in the city and sober Mary in the country becomes confusing and wears thin. She’s always liked being different, but not being two different girls! Worst of all, why can’t either of her parents find someone new and turn her novel into a love story?

About Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868–1920), American novelist, was born at Littleton, New Hampshire, and studied music at the New England Conservatory. Her first novels included Cross Currents (1907) and Miss Billy (1911). In 1913 Pollyanna appeared, which was an immediate success that has retained its popularity ever since. A sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up, was published in 1915, and two volumes of short stories, The Tangled Threads and Across the Years, appeared posthumously in 1924.

About Anne Hancock

Anne Hancock began her career with the Library of Congress's National Library Service (NLS) Talking Books Program, where she has narrated more than 300 audiobooks in a variety of genres. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner, she has lived in France and the Netherlands and uses her training in the languages of both countries in her narration. In addition, she has successfully narrated books with English and Irish accents.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leonie on January 04, 2015

Short novel from 1920 about divorce. The narrator is an exuberant, indiscreet teenage girl who is excited by the novelty of her parents' divorce and is keen to scrutinise everything to do with it. Obviously, this "Isn't divorce fun?" stuff isn't intended to wear long. It's a think-of-the-children bo......more

Goodreads review by Dorka on November 29, 2020

Fogalmazzunk úgy, hogy nagyon szépen tükrözi az 1920-as szemléletet a válásról. Ráadásul Porter önmagához és eddigi regényeihez híven azon a rózsaszínfelhős szívmelengetős módon közelíti a témát, ahogy eddig is mindent. Őszintén szólva az a bajom vele, hogy ez túl komoly téma, hogy elbagatellizáljuk......more

Goodreads review by Mela on May 21, 2023

A few points (messages) in this story are even nowadays valid (sadly), taboo topics, stigmatization, intolerance for deviating from the norm, also stages of adolescence. But I don't agree with the main, that a divorce is always wrong because of children. The examples of marriage troubles in the book......more

Goodreads review by Anete on May 13, 2025

This is from the author of Pollyanna, and it has been a joy. I really enjoy the youthful diary style. Mary Marie is 13-16 years old here, and the last chapter is about when she is 28.......more

Goodreads review by Kristy on May 27, 2019

I have been looking for this book for over 20 years. Maybe a little longer. I read it as a child. One of my friend's parents had a box of books from their grandmother. So pretty much everything in the box had been published in the late 1800's to the early 1900's. This was one of the books. Many of t......more