{"product_id":"readying-rilla-l-m-montgomerys-reworking-of-rilla-of-ingleside-paperback","title":"Readying Rilla: L.M. Montgomery's Reworking of Rilla of Ingleside - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Waterston\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKate Waterston\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​L.M. Montgomery began writing \u003cem\u003eRilla of Ingleside\u003c\/em\u003e shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers fighting and dying on Flanders Fields, but about Canadians struggling to \"keep the home fires burning.\" It is a novel that today remains at once both deeply moving and, on occasion, very funny.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As she wrote the novel over a period of two years, Montgomery accumulated 518 handwritten pages. Alongside this stack was another 71 pages, titled \"Notes.\" These notes-- literary second thoughts, as it were--added textual flavour, improving the novel's realism, emotional depth, and humour. Montgomery's handwritten manuscript of \u003cem\u003eRilla\u003c\/em\u003e was acquired by the University of Guelph Archival \u0026amp; Special Collections in 1999. This manuscript has been painstakingly rendered in a readable format by Kate Waterston and is now published as \u003cem\u003eReadying Rilla\u003c\/em\u003e, with an introduction by Montgomery expert Elizabeth Waterston.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This edition is a surprisingly engrossing read, but offers a different experience than the finished novel provides. Here we sense Montgomery's own thought processes, and witness the way she carefully refined her novel. The world has changed much since 1921: now books are mostly composed on computer, leaving behind little record of the writer's creative journey to a final published work. But editing is a key process in creating any great work of fiction, and here is one of the most detailed records of creativity available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 08, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52701618372915,"sku":"9781772440829","price":40.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eXNGNGdIdFZTM0h4enU0c0lBRWhTUT09.webp?v=1763269245","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/readying-rilla-l-m-montgomerys-reworking-of-rilla-of-ingleside-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}