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Resumen de Rilla of Ingleside
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For readers who love Anne's world, gentle humor and strong family feeling, and anyone curious about the home front in the First World War.
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What does a girl do when the world she loves begins to shake? Rilla of Ingleside, published in 1921, is the last book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne is now a middle-aged doctor's wife, and the story belongs to her youngest daughter, Rilla Blythe. It follows Rilla from fourteen into young womanhood, from the summer of 1914 to the end of the First World War. A girl who cared only about dances and dresses must grow up fast, with humor and stubbornness.
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- 1Ingleside in the last quiet summerFree
- 2A first dance and a distant gunshot
- 3The Glen goes to war
- 4Rilla finds work she can do
- 5Walter's struggle with his conscience
- 6A baby in a soup tureen
- 7Waiting through the middle years
- 8What the story says about courage at home
- 9How Montgomery tells it
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Ingleside in the last quiet summer
The story opens in the early summer of 1914 in Glen St. Mary, a village on Prince Edward Island. Ingleside is the Blythe family home, full of laughter and company. Anne and Gilbert are in middle age, and their youngest, Rilla, is almost fifteen.
Rilla has one great wish. She wants to go to her first real dance, and she is annoyed that her mother thinks she is too young. She is vain and a little lazy, and she knows it. Around her stand Jem, the cheerful eldest son, Walter, the dreamer with a poet's nerves, and Susan Baker, the housekeeper who speaks her mind about everything from politics to pies.
The reader learns to love these rooms and these young people before anything threatens them. When trouble comes, it falls on people you already know.
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Who’s who
- Rilla Blythe
- The lively youngest Blythe daughter is fourteen when war begins to disrupt her family and village.
- Anne Blythe
- Rilla's mother is a doctor's wife whose kindness steadies the family amid fears for her sons.
- Walter Blythe
- Rilla's sensitive, poetic brother finds his love of beauty at odds with the horrors of war.
- Jem Blythe
- The eldest Blythe son is a cheerful medical student devoted to duty and accompanied by his dog Monday.
- Susan Baker
- The Blythes' outspoken, loyal housekeeper supports Anne and helps Rilla shoulder unfamiliar responsibilities at home.
- Kenneth Ford
- A young man connected to the Blythes through family friends, Kenneth holds a special place in Rilla's hopes.
- Gertrude Oliver
- A teacher lodging at Ingleside, Gertrude is Rilla's thoughtful friend and has an unsettling sense of approaching sorrow.
- Miss Cornelia Marshall Elliott
- Anne's outspoken neighbor and longtime friend combines gloomy predictions with energetic work for the village.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 108,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 7 h 10 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary; paperback, hardcover and large print at cost
- LanguagesEnglish and 13 other languages
Questions about Rilla of Ingleside
What is Rilla of Ingleside about?
It is about Rilla Blythe, the youngest daughter of Anne and Gilbert, growing up in a Prince Edward Island village during the First World War. It shows how the war changes her family and community, even far from the fighting.
Is Rilla of Ingleside the last Anne book?
Yes, in the order of the story it is the last of the Anne of Green Gables series, set when Anne is a mother. Anne herself plays a smaller role, and her youngest daughter Rilla is the heroine.
Who is Walter Blythe in Rilla of Ingleside?
Walter is Rilla's older brother, a gentle, poetic young man who feels beauty and pain deeply. His struggle over what the war asks of him is one of the most moving threads in the book.
Who is Jims in Rilla of Ingleside?
Jims is the baby Rilla rescues and cares for during the war. She carries him home in a soup tureen, and Susan calls him a war baby. His upbringing tests and shapes Rilla's character.
Is Rilla of Ingleside worth reading if I have not read the other Anne books?
You can follow it on its own, since Rilla is the center and the story is self-contained. Knowing Anne's history adds warmth, but the family and the war are explained well enough for new readers.