Rilla of Ingleside, L. M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside, L. M. Montgomery
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Rilla of Ingleside

Author: L. M. Montgomery

Narrator: Kate Handford

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2018


Synopsis

Rilla is full of high-spirits just like her mother. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible girl when the world of Ingleside becomes endangered by a far-off war, which carries off her brothers and many of the local young men to fight overseas. The eighth of nine books in the Anne Shirley series, Rilla of Ingleside was published in 1921 and was the sixth book to feature the beloved protagonist from Anne of Green Gables. Notable for being the only Canadian novel about WWI written from a womans perspective, it is also unique in that it mentions the Gallipoli campaign and the terrible sacrifices made by Australian and New Zealand forces.

About L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was one of the most famous Canadian writers of the twentieth century. She is best known for her books for young adults, particularly Anne of Green Gables and its six sequels chronicling the adventures of Anne Shirley, a feisty but sentimental orphan who is adopted by elderly foster parents. In her lifetime, Lucy published 20 novels and some 500 short stories and poems. Her writing, rich in imagination and full of lessons in optimism, brought her international fame and remains popular today.

Lucy was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. Soon after her mother died (when Lucy was just two), her father remarried and moved away. He left Lucy to be raised by her maternal grandparents in Cavendish. The isolation of this small town combined with the strict discipline of her grandparents led to an unhappy childhood.

Lucy was an avid reader and writer at an early age. She published her first poem in a local paper at the age of fifteen. She studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, then returned to Cavendish to take care of her grandmother, worked at a local post office, and became a schoolteacher.

While caring for her grandmother, she wrote Anne of Green Gables. Several publishers rejected the book before it was finally accepted, and it became a bestseller. Eventually, it was made into a musical, a television movie, and a television series. Lucy later married a minister and moved to Ontario, where she died in 1942.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on August 04, 2007

"'Is it Rilla my Rilla?' Yeth."......more

Goodreads review by emma on August 08, 2022

NO MORE ENDINGS. i'm done. i have reached, even by the most generous readings of my potential life span (especially taking into account how many cookies i eat and how my insides are probably pickled with a mixture of caffeine, alcohol, and raw hate), the quarter-point of my life. AND I HAVE HAD ENOUGH......more

Goodreads review by Tharindu on July 22, 2020

"Faith and affection and loyalty are precious things wherever they are found." Finally down to the 8th and Last of the Anne of Green Gables, though Anne is now only a background character. This book breaks away from the dreamy nature of the series, and takes the reader through numerous hardships a fam......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on August 20, 2017

Now, I loved Anne. Don't get me wrong, but this book was on another whole level. I ADORED It. The heartbreak of ww1, the grown up Blythe family. . . I just loved everything about it.......more