Emily of New Moon (AmazonClassics Edition)

De: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Narrado por: Jess Nahikian

After Emily Starr loses her dear father, the ten-year-old orphan is packed off to live with her starched relatives on Prince Edward Island. If only she could relate to them. Frankly, whip-smart, ambitious Emily can’t imagine ever feeling at home at New Moon Farm. Especially when her writerly dreams are routinely dashed by her autocratic aunt. Then Emily finds an outlet for her creative spirit with a group of friends every bit as passionate and gifted as she. With their help, New Moon could start to feel like home after all.

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s semiautobiographical coming-of-age tale is a bittersweet ode to family, friendship, and forging your own path in life.

Revised edition: Previously published as Emily of New Moon, this edition of Emily of New Moon (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Delightful

I don’t know what age group this book begins at; however I found it wise, worth quoting and full of flash.

An Irrespressible Orphan and a New Life

When one hears of a little orphan girl heroine in an LM Montgomery book, the mind immediately goes to Anne of Green Gables, but Montgomery wrote about other orphan heroines and one was irrepressible Emily Bird Star whose parents have both passed and now her Murray relations must decide her fate. Told with an amazing grasp of child characters' way of thinking, speaking and acting, young Emily and her world come alive for us.

Emily's story is bittersweet. Her mother died before she was very old and her father's health deteriorates so that she is forced to face his loss. She grows up quickly because she knows she's on her own to a certain extent and her father wanted her to be a free thinker and have her independence. This little prepares her for what comes after his death.

She's old enough to grasp that none of her relations save Aunt Laura and Cousin Jimmy want her or care about her feelings and she is shrewd enough to know her best chance is with Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Laura, and Cousin Jimmy at New Moon farm, the old Murray homestead near the Bright Water. She has an awkward time of it at first with her grief over her father's death, her vivid imagination, and fitting in among locals as the new girl and adjusting to rules and routines. But, slowly Emily finds her way and carves a niche for herself. She discovers interest in poetry, a group of close misfit friends, and that perhaps life is worth living after all.

Emily's story has similarities to the Anne tales, but it has darker tones and Emily, herself is shades darker than Anne. One can appreciate both for their blend of similarities and differences.

I enjoyed this revisit to Emily of New Moon as an Amazon Classics on audio with new to me narrator Jess Nahikian. She voiced a large cast of adults, children, age ranges, classes, and genders so well. I look forward to more of her work.

All in all, Emily was as enchanting as the first time I read this book and draws me forward to want the next book in the series.

wow!

My knowledge of L.M. Montgomery's work comes from rereading my favorite books from her Anne series every year. Emily is like my beloved Anne of Green Gables but lacking any cheesiness caused by oversimplification of the people. The characters and thier actions in Emily's story represent the humans I know to a much higher degree than in the Anne series. Yet Emily's story is still magical and sweet. I'm looking forward to the next in the series of elvin Emily's adventures.

From Anne to Emily

As a child of the 80's Anne was my friend. In my 30's Emily won my heart with her quick wit and fast thinking. L.M.Montgomery is one of my favorite arthurs.

Better than Anne!

Can’t believe I didn’t know about this book until my 30’s. It’s wonderful. I grew up a fan of Anne but I think I like Emily even better. A classic and I can’t wait for more.

Perfect narrator!!

I love Emily of new room. I’ve read it many times and this was the first time I’ve listened to it. It was perfect.

Glenda Cedarleaf does the 5 star reading

Once you’ve heard a reader truly inhabit the characters, with music even, there’s no going back. Glenda Cedarleaf tells excerpts of this book (and others just as well) as a bedtime story, on the app Insight Timer, absolutely exquisitely. I’d probably have been okay with this narration but I’d not have loved the book so well. Glenda Cedarleaf loves this story so much and understands it so well that one sees right out of Miss Emily’s eyes. Somebody please talk her into reading full books and let her keep all of her special effects.

Anne >> Emily

While I enjoyed this book, it is mostly because L.M. Montgomery's writing being so spring appropriate and lush. But I had quite a few problems with this story. I think that Emily is a lot less likeable protagonist than Anne, imo. She is a somewhat mean spirited little thing who is both fat-phobic and ugly-phobic (the way she talked about her father's nurse/cook was absolutely disgusting imo) 😓
Emily's aunts have nothing on Marilla and while I'd like to compare Ilse so Diana, that at least would not be a fair comparison because Ilse is abandoned in her own home, while Diana has a loving family. That being said, Ilse still gaslights Emily into tolerating her tongue lashings daily.
Aunt Nancy is a horrible person, slut-shaming (Isle's mother), virgin-shaming (Emily's aunts) and ugly-shaming (her own friend) women in a scope of a single sentence, which was just hard to listen to. Then there is the 36 years old Dean Priest salivating over a 12 years old. Why was that needed?! It wasn't.

So I am not sure whether I am going to continue on with the series or whether I should just reread Anne of Green Gables.

The narrator, Jess Nahikian, was absolutely lovely to listen to.

A favorite story, disappointing narration

Lifetime favorite story, but narrator took much of the life out of it. Narrator lacked understanding of some pronunciations and phrases in the text. Sentences almost all performed with the same cadence. I listened because I love the story, but it was a pale copy of what it could have been.