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Rilla of Ingleside (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2010)
Anne of Green Gables (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2012)
Rilla of Ingleside (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2010)
Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie. Print, jacketed hardcover, 5 1/8” x 7 3/4”, xxv + 390 pp., 978-0-6700-6519-6. Cover illustration by Vince McIndoe. Epigraph and dedication included.
This edition restores the complete text of the original 1921 edition. It supplements that text with an introduction, maps of Europe, two poems, and a detailed glossary, to help place Montgomery’s text within its historical, cultural, and biographical contexts. An identical trade paperback edition by Penguin Canada followed in 2011.
Additional Content
Introduction (ix–xix), “A Note on the Text“ (xx), “The Origins of the First World War” (xxi–xxv), “Canadian Women’s Poetry of the First World War” (351–53), glossary (354–87), and “Further Reading” (388–89) by Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie. “Our Women” by L.M. Montgomery. “The Young Knights” by Virna Sheard.
A Note on the Text
This edition of Rilla of Ingleside restores the complete text of the original 1921 edition and makes three handwritten corrections found in L.M. Montgomery’s personal copy of the novel.
Sources
Copies of the first printing of both the hardcover and the paperback editions are in the site owner’s personal collection. Cover art courtesy of Penguin Canada.
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Anne of Green Gables (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2012)
Penguin Classics. Print, trade paperback, 5 1/8” x 7 3/4”, x + 298 pp., 978-0-14-305624-9. Cover art by Darren Booth. Original interior illustrations by M.A. Claus and W.A.J. Claus. Epigraph and dedication omitted.
A Note on the Text
Although it features the same cover as an earlier Penguin Classics hardcover edition published in 2006, this edition includes a reset text (that used in the 100 Years of Anne edition published in 2008) and omits the supplementary materials by Lisa Moore.
Sources
A copy of the first printing is in the site owner’s personal collection.
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