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Rilla of Ingleside
by L.M. Montgomery
I can’t love this final book in the Anne of Avonlea series as much as I’d like, because it’s mostly about her daughter Rilla, and Rilla can’t compare. Most important earlier characters are barely mentioned, and I’m particularly bitter about the short shrift to Marilla, to whom Rilla owes her name and probably her fictional existence. And something happens to a kitten that I I just couldn’t bear. It’s also a long propaganda piece for the Canadian war effort in World War I, then known as the Great War. (Ironically, one of the characters comes home at the end and declares that everyone now understands that they must make a world where wars can’t happen.). There’s a lot of implausible prophetic dreaming and intuition and Montgomery also appropriates some well known true stories about loyal dogs — plus the legacy of the McRae poem about the poppies of Flanders Field — without attribution. But the book also does what only Montgomery can do. It captures the look and weather and seasons of Prince Edward Island, and the lifestyle and vitality of the people who lived there in the time period spanned by these books. I bid a very fond farewell and am glad I finally read this classic series.