Gift from the Sea

50th Anniversary Edition

By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Narrated by: Claudette Colbert

Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.

©1955, 1975, 1983, 2003 Anne Morrow Lindbergh; 2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form ... It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart." —New York Times Book Review

Interesting

This book was very interesting and many things discussed as very prevelent to life today and will always be. the performance was kind of monotone and made it hard to comtinually focus on the story.

This work is filled with wisdom .

We have to walk an entire life in order to obtain all of this wisdomr. Learn from her!

Gifts of beauty and contemplation

This book takes me away from every day life and transports me to place where there is solitude and peace, where I can slow down and be fully present. After reading it the first time, it stayed with me, and I reflected on the meditations on "youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude, and contentment (from the 50th anniversary edition)."

Life is change. The things we love and want to hold on to are transient and intermittent. Nothing stays the same and live moves on. More layers are revealed. As I have gone through and will go through the different stages of life and experience different relationships, I see what lies beneath the external part - deeper connections, beauty, joy, contentment, insight, creativity.

After reading it, I have less fear of the unknown. Heading toward the unknown is where you find beauty in the lightness of touch and living in present. This book is a gift that transcends time and a multi-read for me.

I enjoyed all versions of the book - the paperback, ebook, and audible.

A Lady Of And For The Times

Ann Morrow's wisdom for living in the moment, probably founded in split second judgement from her days in flight, serves as a guide for the ages.

Absolutely Timeless!

Even in 2023, this book is relevant. Enjoyed it very much and highly recommend it.

Gift from the sea

I have read this book many many times and it in itself is timeless. A must read for all

Page 106

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.” Opening passages, 7th Chapter, P. 106 of the book.

Nor do I expect to read/listen to all the books and audiobooks in my library, or available more and more everywhere.

This “Gift” of a book written in 1955 is minimally anachronistic by 2019’s fierce sense of pride and heightened, prickly sensitivities, yet still vital, prophetic regarding “self-help” core themes.

The world still needs, more than ever, the book’s closing words: “Patience—Faith—Openness, is what the sea has to teach...Simplicity—Solitude—Intermittency...”

Thoughtful words written over 50 years ago still ring true.

I enjoyed Anne Morrow Lindbergh's words. Some are a bit dated, from the perspective of a wife in the 1940s and thereabout, and others ring true to this day.

I did not particularly enjoy the narrator's voice. I recommend that you listen to a sample on Amazon before punching this through Audible. (I bought it, anyway, because I listen to books sometimes to give my eyes a break from reading. In my profession, I read many hours each day.)

beautiful with great narration

This book was like a balm to my soul. don't let it's age fool you!

Must Read

All Moms Wives or Women should read this to get a clearer understanding of womanhood by seeing it through the eyes of our moms grandmothers amd aunts. This was my 3rd time to read this book. I plan to give it to my daughter in laws for Christmas.