L.M. Montgomery
mass_market | Pages: 218 pages Rating: 4.26 | 27751 Users | 3755 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Blue Castle |
| Author | : | L.M. Montgomery |
| Book Format | : | mass_market |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 218 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1989 by Bantam Books (first published 1926) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Cultural. Canada |
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An unforgettable story of courage and romance. Will Valancy Stirling ever escape her strict family and find true love? Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle--a place where all her dreams come true and she can be who she truly wants to be. After getting shocking news from the doctor, she rebels against her family and discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures far beyond her most secret dreams.Particularize Books As The Blue Castle
| Original Title: | The Blue Castle |
| ISBN: | 0553280511 (ISBN13: 9780553280517) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Valancy Stirling, Barney Snaith |
| Setting: | Canada Deerwood, Ontario,1921(Canada) |
Rating Based On Books The Blue Castle
Ratings: 4.26 From 27751 Users | 3755 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books The Blue Castle
My second time reading this was even more delightful than the first! I inhaled this book in two days, and it refreshed me wonderfully.+++I can't read this book slowly. My third time through, I finished it in two days again. It's so delicious.+++Fourth read of this delicious book, and again read it in two days. Simply cannot help but inhale it.Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by not because she had no future but because she had no past.One of my favourite youthful readings. Sweet though not maudlin, a bit unreliable at times, clichéd even but somewhat really well worked for me. Valancy Stirling, almost thirty-years-old, today we would say independent and self-aware young woman but a hundred years ago she was perceived as an old spinster, and actually neither independent nor self-aware. When we meet her on her
An independent story from the author of Anne of Green Gables, written for an older audience. An important and underrated part of the Montgomery collection -- in this story, a young woman (young by our standards, an old maid in her time) rebels against her oppressive family and a conservative society to achieve a few basic but essential moments of happiness. On the surface this may look like flowers and fluff but, for the time, this was a subversively pre-feminist novel. Valancy becomes
"Valancy had lived spiritually in the Blue Castle ever since she could remember. She had been a very tiny child when she found herself possessed of it. Always, when she shut her eyes, she could see it plainly, with its turrets and banners on the pine-clad mountain height, wrapped in its faint, blue loveliness, against the sunset skies of a fair and unknown land. Everything wonderful and beautiful was in that castle. Jewels that queens might have worn; robes of moonlight and fire; couches of
What a delightful book! Who could not love this story about a woman who gains the courage to break free from the smothering yoke of her family and to make the most of the life she has left?This book was hilariously funny in some parts, always inspirational, and sometimes pretty sad. It was intensely readable, and I loved Valancy and Barney. I could empathize very deeply with Valancy's situation, and I cheered her on when she stopped being afraid, and decided to be true to herself. Life is too
This is a sweet story about a spinstery spinster who conversely is given a new lease on life when her doctor pronounces a death sentence on her. "If I have only one year to live", she reasons, "I had better start living"! The first thing Valency does while squeezing out of society's cage is to see things (and people) as they truly are and speak the truth, niceties and platitudes be hanged!I have to say that if I wasn't pressured by my daugher to keep reading this, I would have given it up around
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