For the little girl that lives inside you
On a summer vacation when I was a girl of about 11, I discovered Anne of Green Gables, a juvenile novel after the fashion of Little House on the Prairie. I immediately fell in love with the protagonist, a talkative orphan redhead with a wild imagination who was in and out of trouble. I devoured the book and soon after I had finished it, I got the second book in a series of 8: Anne of Avonlea. Unfortunately I could never get the other 6, since they were out of print.
Last year a colleague offered to lend me an English copy of Anne's House of Dreams, in which Anne, already a young woman gets married to her childhood love and settles down in Four Winds Harbour, in the coast of Canada.
The initial volume has been filmed several times, adapted for stage and translated into several languages.
The author of the series, Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), is a master of characterization and landscape description and has a fine sense of humour. I’ve recorded a passage in which Anne receives the visit of one of her new neighbours. The background music is "La Rejouissance" recorded by Two Violins and available at PodsafeAudio.
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5 comments:
Lovely Claudia! You are truly a "kindred spirit" (Anne's favourite expression). Some day you will have to visit Prince Edward Island and see the house with the green gables!
Jane
I've often wanted to read this book and now I might consider offering to my young reading niece Josephine,age nine. Your book blog format is cool, Claudia.
Unfortunately, like Uwe I cannot start the player. I can see a Quicktime Icon with a question mark Q?
yours, Sus
PS I'd better read that blog of Michael's that helped you with the recording :-)
WOW, WOW, WOW! I'm speechless, Claudia! (and, believe me, that doesn't happen quite often!;-)). And your recording was just superb!!!!!
Thanks for the tip on the site to get music from... I'll try it soon and let you know!
Kudos to you!!!
"Awed by your performance",
Gladys
PS: have you added this blog to our links at BAW-06. This masterpiece just HAS to be there!
Hi Claudia,
just wanted to report that your audio works so well with Internet Explorer. Well, usually this was no problem in the Mozilla browser, just this one time. Probably some nasty code you copied there :-(
Your reading voice is so smooth and the music so conforting that I could listen to you for hours !
Sus
Ah, I love Anne of Green Gables, and the other best one in the series is, in my opinion, House of Dreams!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
A nostalgic sigh ;-).
You know, Anne is very popular here in Japan ;-). She's known here as Redheaded Anne.
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