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Green Gables tale darkens in final book - CBC News - Arts - http://www.cbc.ca/arts...
October 23
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"Many Lucy Maud Montgomery fans may be shocked next week when they encounter the dark themes in the final Anne of Green Gables book, but a literary scholar says it's a side of the iconic Canadian author that was always there."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
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*blink* Rilla of Ingleside (the 8th book in the series) was pretty damn dark. Anyone who is "shocked" by the new book must not have read the entire series.
- Soup
Soup I agree. I did read the entire series.
- Melanie Reed
@Melanie, It's embarrassing to admit but nothing makes me cry like Montgomery. I just WEEP.
- Soup
@Soup Sounds like you have the soul of a warrior-poet inside!
- Melanie Reed
L.M.montgomery suffered from depression for a good part of her life - any of her readers who didn't know that may not have read between the lines of her books which were about life, full of flowers and thorns same as her own -
- sally stokhamer
It's good for Canada's self-image when one of it's literary heros is shown to be human... rather than the purveyor of sweetness she's sometimes thought to be. I'm reminded of Virginia Woolf's image of "killing the angel".
- T. Brent, technopeasant