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Краткое содержание: Rainbow Valley
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 7 parts
- Аудио скоро
Four motherless manse children and a doctor's brood turn a hidden valley into a kingdom of mischief.
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Rainbow Valley — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 5 h 25 min4 h 20 min fast, 6 h 30 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 77 50035 chapters
- Страницы
- Страниц: 230348 in large print
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1919by L. M. Montgomery
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Rainbow Valley in short
Rainbow Valley follows two groups of children in one small Prince Edward Island village. The Blythes have a mother, a father and a safe home. The Merediths have a gentle father who lives in books and no mother at all.
What Rainbow Valley is about
What happens when a starving runaway hides in a hayloft, a minister forgets his own children's dinner, and a doctor's family shares fried trout with anyone who follows the smell? That is the spark of Rainbow Valley, a novel by L. M. Montgomery, published in 1919. Anne of Green Gables now sits in the background as a mother of six, and the children take the stage.
Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, and she writes its villages from the inside. She knows how a small place can be cruel and kind in the same afternoon. Her style is light and quick, with mischief beside real grief, and a faint shadow falls across the sunniest pages.
Для кого. You will love this book if you enjoy warm village comedy, spirited children, quiet romance and old Prince Edward Island. It suits anyone who wants to watch Anne's own children grow up.
The story in 7 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Two families find each other in a valley
The story opens with Dr. Gilbert and Anne Blythe coming home from three months in Europe. Their children have already run to the place they love best, a wooded hollow behind the maple grove. Walter named it Rainbow Valley. It has a brook, wild cherry trees, and two entwined trees called the Tree Lovers, hung with sleigh bells.
Meanwhile Miss Cornelia walks up to Ingleside, bursting with news. The village has called a new minister, John Knox Meredith. He is learned and handsome, and he has no common sense at all. He is a widower with four children. The manse is thick with dust, and old Aunt Martha serves the same cold mutton until the children call it ditto. Miss Cornelia fears they run wild and play in the Methodist graveyard next door.
In that graveyard Jerry, Faith, Una and Carl sit on flat tombstones. They have had bread and molasses for supper, and a delicious smell drifts up from the valley. They follow it and find Jem, Walter, Nan and Di about to eat fried trout. The Blythes say there is plenty for everyone. Nobody asks about church, money or manners. They share the meal and trade secrets, and by the last trout they are sworn friends.
Friendship here begins with a shared meal and no questions.
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A hungry runaway changes the manse
One Saturday the manse children explore an old barn and hear a rustle in the hayloft.
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One wrong day brings a public scandal
Mr. Meredith goes away on holiday with Jerry.
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Faith and Walter learn the price of courage
Mrs. Alec Davis, the richest woman in the congregation, visits the manse with a plan.
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A minister's heart wakes at a hidden spring
Not all the action belongs to the children.
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Children try to raise themselves by rules
Mary Vance warns the manse children that the congregation may ask their father to resign.
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Gossip, motherless children and a shadowy piper
Underneath the fun is a quiet ache.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Faith Meredith The minister's eleven-year-old daughter, a laughing, daring girl who acts first and thinks later and will do anything to protect her father.
- Una Meredith Faith's quiet younger sister, shy and sensitive, who longs for a mother's care and finds surprising courage when others need her.
- Jerry and Carl Meredith The minister's sons. Jerry is the serious leader, and Carl is a gentle naturalist who keeps toads, ants and beetles everywhere.
- Walter Blythe Anne's dreamy son, a poet at heart who loves myths and beauty and hates anything ugly or painful.
- Jem, Nan and Di Blythe Jem is the steady, practical eldest, and the twins Nan and Di are lively girls who share Rainbow Valley with their friends.
- Mary Vance A rough, sharp-tongued orphan who runs away from a cruel household and wants most of all to belong somewhere.
- John Meredith The absent-minded minister and widower who lives among his books and must learn to see what his children need.
- Miss Cornelia Elliott A blunt, kind-hearted neighbor who scolds and gossips and yet takes real trouble to help the manse family.
How it ends (spoiler)
The Merediths and Wests are united. Una, brave and determined, goes up the hill to ask Rosemary to marry her father, and Rosemary sends a note naming a meeting at the spring. Ellen is freed to marry Norman Douglas, and a double wedding is planned. On Jem's last evening in the valley before Queen's Academy, Walter sees the Pied Piper coming. Jem cries out that he will follow him gladly around the world.
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Вопросы о книге Rainbow Valley
What is Rainbow Valley about?
It follows the Blythe children of Ingleside and the motherless children of the new minister in Glen St. Mary. They play in a hidden valley, cause village talk, and find a runaway named Mary Vance.
Do I need to read the earlier Anne books first?
No. Anne appears as a warm mother in the background, and the story centers on her children and the manse family. Anyone can follow it, though earlier readers will enjoy old names such as Green Gables and Susan Baker.
What does Rainbow Valley stand for in the book?
It is the children's own kingdom, a hollow behind Ingleside with a brook, trees and a hidden spring. They name it after a rainbow they once saw over it, and it becomes the place where friendships form.
Is Rainbow Valley a true story, and when was it written?
It is a work of fiction set on Prince Edward Island in the early 1900s and published in 1919. Montgomery drew on the village life, churches and gossip she knew from her own island home.
Is Rainbow Valley easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters. It has short chapters, lively dialogue, many funny scenes and a clear story. Each chapter is a little episode, so you can pick it up and follow it easily.
Как сослаться на это издание
Montgomery, L. M. Rainbow Valley. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/rainbow-valley.
Montgomery, L. M. (2026). Rainbow Valley. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/rainbow-valley (Original work published 1919)
Montgomery, L. M. Rainbow Valley. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/rainbow-valley.
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