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Cargando... Marilla Before Anne (edición 2021)por Louise Michalos (Autor)
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Marilla Cuthbert was fifty-two years old when the plucky red-headed Anne Shirley came to live with her and her brother, Matthew, at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island. A seemingly cold and dour spinster, her heart eventually softens to the loveable orphan girl. But for over a century readers have wondered, who was Marilla before Anne? In Louise Michalos's remarkable debut novel, readers are introduced to a spirited eighteen-year-old Marilla Cuthbert-a girl not unlike Anne herself-who is desperately in love, and whose whole life is spread before her. But when a moment of defiance brings life-changing consequences, a new Marilla begins to take shape, one who would learn to bear tragedy like a birthright, and loss as an inevitability, and who would hold steadfast to the secrets that could shatter the lives of everyone around her. Weaving its way from Marilla's early life in Avonlea to her coming-of-age in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and back, Marilla Before Anne is the story readers of Anne of Green Gables have longed for. Told with a refreshingly original East Coast voice, this exquisite, heartbreaking work of historical fiction takes readers on a journey back in time, to the Green Gables where Marilla Cuthbert lived, loved, and learned, long before Anne. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I knew I wanted to read this book, from just the title. I am an avid fan of Anne of Green Gables. I have books, movies, and address book, and a cookbook. But I knew just a few pages into it, what the author was going to try to do and how wrong it was, to the Anne of Green Gables books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Marilla's middle name was put down here, as Anne. Marilla had a baby girl out of wedlock, that the family that adopted her, named her Bertha Anne. Bertha later marries Walter Shirley. It's too convenient for Anne's story. If Anne was indeed Marilla's granddaughter by blood, then Anne would never have been farmed out to other families to work as an unloved servant, nor would she have been placed into an orphanage.
Matthew and Marilla asked for a boy from the orphanage to help with some of the farm chores, to help Matthew. They didn't specifically request Anne.
Being true to the original novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this book doesn't make any sense at all. Not to mention the blasphemy used in this book. The Anne of Green Gables books never used any blasphemy. As it should be. Why is it that authors feel that using blasphemy is a good thing in a book? Highly disappointed. This book could have been so much more. It should have been titled BERTHA SHIRLEY BEFORE ANNE, and leave out everything about Green Gables and Marilla and Matthew.
If you have never read Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this book is for you. If you have read the Anne books or watched the movies, this book will make no sense to you, there is no continuity to the original story.
Another Anne book called BEFORE GREEN GABLES by Budge Wilson has excellently told us of Anne's story before Green Gables.
I received a complimentary copy of #marillabeforeanne from #netgalley I was under no obligation to post a review. (