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Title: A Girl of the Limberlost (The Library of Indiana Classics) by Gene Stratton-Porter, Wladyslaw T. Benda ISBN: 0-253-20331-7 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.37 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (35 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Teenaged girl succeeds through self determination
Comment: As a woman lepidopterist, can you imagine how many times people have seen me teaching about butterflies and said,"Have you read 'Girl of the Limberlost'?" Thanks to Amazon.com I found the book. The story I find charming though Victorian in the respect of its following a trite pattern of "poor, good girl meets prince and lives happily ever after." Sweet and charming but perhaps encouraging a less than realistic view of the real world. The writer does know flora and fauna, however: behavior of the moths spoiling themselves when confined; collecting moths at night as they lit on her dress; the mother's fright at finding moths emerging on the kitchen curtain in the night. The first chapters of the book, with the woodlands and swamps described in such a manner draws the reader into those fern-filled leafy bowers--and into the young girl's life, empty and loveless save for the joy of nature. As the story draws to a close in the final chapter, I am left to wonder what kind of life she finds, marrying into a social set so far removed from her own.
Rating: 5
Summary: Glorious
Comment: Shelve Titanic. Read this book instead. I normally avoid romances, but this is the most amazing book I have ever read. On a desert island, I would choose this book.
Elnora Comstock is a poor, emotionally-neglected girl whose mother despises her, and is pitied by her classmates at a local college. Elnora's sole friends are the nearby farmers, and the Bird Woman, collector of moths. Since Elnora lives within range of the huge, dangerous swamp "Limberlost", she often goes into it to collect moths. Soon, she discovers that she can pay her way through school with them.
Along the way, she befriends and homeless children, and recovers her father's old violin. When her mother discovers a devastating secret about her husband, she seeks to make things right between her and Elnora.
The second half of the book involves Elnora's nature-bound friendship with a rich young man, Philip Ammon. Ammon and Elnora slowly begin to fall in love... but he is already engaged to a jealous and egotistical young woman in Chicago. Keep in mind that at the time, an engagement was virtually the same thing as a marriage...
Elnora and Ammon's love is pure and lovely, completely devoid of physical attraction, and their romance is the best one in books. The characters are phenomenal, including Mrs. Comstock and Ammon's fiancee, neither of whom become cookie-cutter persecuters. The only flat character is the Bird Woman, but she is rarely there. The dialogue is good enough to be in a modern novel, and girls can sympathize with Elnora's embarrassment.
Elnora Comstock herself is one of the best literary heroines I've ever seen. She is independent and intelligent, concerned with physical appearance and yet aware that it's what's inside that counts, strong and feminine. She is the best example ever that a woman can be fill traditional roles without being repressed or oppressed.
This book is amazing. If you haven't read it already, you should! :):):)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Pleasurable Read
Comment: I was given this book by a missionary years ago; and find myself going back to re-read it at least once a year - a wonderful story with a great moral.
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Title: Freckles (The Library of Indiana Classics) by Gene Stratton-Porter ISBN: 0253203635 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $11.58 |
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Title: The Keeper of the Bees (The Library of Indiana Classics) by Gene Stratton-Porter ISBN: 025320691X Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Harvester (Library of Indiana Classics) by Gene Stratton-Porter ISBN: 0253204577 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Daughter of the Land (Library of Indiana Classic) by Gene Stratton-Porter ISBN: 0253211387 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Laddie: A True Blue Story (Library of Indiana Classics) by Gene Stratton-Porter ISBN: 0253204585 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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