Oh how I wish this was written in our time because this would be so, so gay. Emily and Ilse belong together and we all know Nancy and Caroline are a thing. What a heckin shame.
Also, CATS.
That's it. That's the review.

Emily of New Moon (Emily of New Moon #1), L.M. Montgomery

Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery about an orphan girl growing up in Canada. It was first published in 1923.

The Emily novels depicted life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of tuberculosis.

Montgomery considered Emily to be a character much closer to her own personality than Anne, and some of the events which occur in the Emily series happened to Montgomery herself.

Emily is described as having black hair, purply violet eyes, elfin ears, pale skin and a unique and enchanting "slow" smile.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز دوم ماه ژانویه سال 2016میلادی

عنوان: امیلی در نیومون؛ نویسنده: لوسی مود (ماد) مونتگمری؛ مترجم: سارا قدیانی؛ ویراستار محبوبه کرمی؛ تهران، قدیانی، 1394، در 560ص؛ شابک 9786002514011؛ شابک دوره 9786002514042؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان کانادا سده 20م

زندگی دختر جوان «امیلی استار» است؛ دخترکی که پس از مرگ پدر، خانواده ی مادری اش، سرپرستی او را میپذیرند؛ داستان «امیلی» بیشتر واقعگرایانه است، و بیشتر رخدادها برای نویسنده ی کتاب، پیش آمده است؛

نقل از متن کتاب (...؛ امیلی گفت: کاش آدمها از همان لحظه ی تولد همه چیز یادشان میماند؛ اینطوری خیلی جالب میشد؛ پدر لبخندی زد، و گفت: فکر کنم آنطوری کلی خاطره های ناجور، ذهنمان را پر میکرد؛ البته در مورد تو صدق نمیکرد، چون تو کوچولوی خوش مشربی بودی امیلی؛ ...؛)؛ پایان نقل

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 28/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 24/06/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

"If it's in you to climb you must - there are those who must lift their eyes to the hills - they can't breathe properly in the valleys."

Emily of New Moon by LM Montgomery, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I feel like this is the book of my soul, guys. The prose is breathtaking and the narrative is magical. 100% one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Orphan Emily is charismatic, introspective, empathetic, and determined. Her beauty of spirit has put her in the ranks of my favorite literary heroines of all time, following Sara Crewe of A Little Princess.

I liked this story better than Anne of Green Gables. I know, *gasp*! I want to live at New Moon. I want to be best friends with Emily! Oh my. And Isle - what an absolute character! Her insults had me in stitches

Even more so than L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, her Emily of New Moon trilogy novels (Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest) have always been absolutely and utterly personal favourites, and mostly so because while I have definitely and certainly enjoyed reading about Anne Shirley, her bubbly extrovertedness is not and can never be even remotely as close to me and to my own rather internal and quiet personality as equally imaginative and dreamy as Anne Shirley but also considerably more introverted Emily Byrd Starr. For indeed, Emily is absolutely and totally I, and a character, a persona to whom I can therefore relate much better and with considerably more ease than to either Anne Shirley and yes also to Emily's main sidekick and best friend Ilse Burnley who most certainly is an enjoyable and interestingly enough depicted character but who is also much too external and often considerably too all over the place, even bordering on the extreme for my personal reading tastes.

Now aside from my emotional kinship and attachment to young Emily Byrd Starr, I guess what has always made the Emily novels so special, so encouraging and uplifting (and indeed all of them, but my favourite is most definitely this here first novel, is Emily of New Moon) is that even with tragedies, sadness and emotional neglect being often rather overtly and painfully described by L.M. Montgomery (and in a manner so detailed and laden with pathos that she obviously seems to be writing from her own personal experience here), Emily is always able to keep engaging in her passion and need for writing even when especially her Aunt Elizabeth staunchly and rather unbendingly at first disapproves (and of course primarily and delightfully with Cousin Jimmy's help, who is probably one of my most favourite male L.M. Montgomery's male characters, period, richly and with exquisite and loving detail depicted, possessing a total and sweetly pure heart of gold and who is in fact also more than willing to unconditionally forgive Aunt Elizabeth for having pushed him into the New Moon well when they were children, even though this has had a lasting both physically and mentally painful effect on him).

And most definitely, I have certainly always in the Emily novels much preferred Cousin Jimmy as a character to say Aunt Laura, who while sweet tempered and always sympathetic towards Emily, is actually a rather pale and paper thin character with not much if any backbone and fight so to speak (and if truth be told, I do even rather prefer Aunt Elizabeth as a character to Aunt Laura, for while there is not really anything to Aunt Laura, Aunt Elizabeth always does appear as a real flesh and blood individual, as a character who might indeed be hard, severe and not always very sympathetic and empathetic towards her niece, towards Emily, but who still is a much more richly nuanced character than Laura who mostly just appears as a one dimensional leaf in my humble opinion). And yes indeed, I also do very much love love love how slowly but surely throughout the course of Emily of New Moon, both Emily and Aunt Elizabeth start to increasingly understand and appreciate one another until by the end of the novel, the latter considers her niece no longer merely an inconvenient duty and burden, no longer just the unloved and loathsome offspring of Juliet Murray's and Douglas Starr's unapproved of elopement and marriage, but a beloved and increasingly appreciated child (so eloquently and warmly depicted at the end of Emily of New Moon during Elizabeth's vigil at Emily's bedside when Emily is seriously and frighteningly ill with the measles, and where Elizabeth finally does admit to her sister Laura just how much she loves her niece and how much Emily actually has come to mean to her).

And now finally (but for and to me very much importantly), I do have to admit that I have aways had a somewhat difficult time accepting those dissenting voices which seem to imply that the character of Dean Priest is somehow and supposedly a pedophile (although I still do respect those readers who find him creepy, as what my reading tastes and viewpoints are, are of course not necessarily those of other readers). However and the above having been said, I personally do still NOT in any manner consider Dean Priest a potential pedophile (never have and never will), since his interest in Emily is (and in the first novel, in Emily of New Moon especially) entirely spiritual in nature, that he is not at all interested in Emily in a sexual and physical manner whatsoever, but in my opinion simply recognises and appreciates a kindred soul (as yes, Emily herself also does with him). And truthfully, aside from Cousin Jimmy and main protagonist Emily Byrd Starr, Dean Priest is probably also one of my favourite characters in Montgomery's Emily of New Moon series, well, at least until the third novel, until Emily's Quest, where Dean becomes more and more jealous of Emily's writing and actually causes (coerces) her to destroy, to burn her manuscript and then to be so devastated by this that she falls down the stairs and seriously injures herself. And yes, I do hope that those readers who tend to consider Dean Priest as a problematic individual and perhaps even as somewhat pedophilic will NOT now equally consider me thus, but be that as it may, I have indeed always adored Dean Priest (at least in the first two Emily novels, in both Emily of New Moon and Emily Climbs) and indeed until Dean's jealousy and almost stalker like clinginess in Emily's Quest, I for one had also kind of wanted Dean and Emily to become a couple as I just do not all that much like Teddy Kent as Emily's love interest (finding him a nicely enough conceptualised character but with not all that much which I personally would find either stimulating or engaging, and the same holds true for Perry Miller I might add, whom I do find more interesting than Teddy Kent but still not really of much narrative substance).

One of the things I love about L. M. Montgomery's writing is how vividly she remembers what things feel and seem when you are a child. I also have very clear recollections of my childhood, particularly of my inner self as a child, and so much of what she writes rings so true. When Emily cries, "I am important to myself" (p. 25), I wanted to cheer because that is how I felt too when I was in single digits and being dismissed by adults. And, when "Elizabeth Murray had learned an important lesson -- that there was not one law of fairness for children and another for grown-ups" (p. 375), I set down my book and clapped. I was very sensitive to injustice, slights, and being treated condescendingly when I was a kid, and I try really hard not to treat kids that way now that I'm an adult.

Anyway, I read all three Emily books twenty years ago, when I was in my early twenties, and thought they were okay. I don't know if I loved Emily of New Moon when I read it just now, but I definitely liked it a lot more than I did before. I chuckled often, smiled oftener, and am eager to read the next book in the trilogy.

I really loved Emily's concept of "the flash." I also have moments of such clear and unadulterated joy that they seem like ecstatic glimpses of a different world. Mine usually are brought about by bits of music, silhouettes, or something wonderful happening against all expectation -- they can all transport me with a jolt of ecstasy. I don't have a name for it like Emily does, but I think the concept is the same.

I miss this whole series.
I should read them all again.
Talk about timeless characters and beautiful settings.

چقدر دلم برای امیلی عزیزم تنگ شده بود!
البته از آنه جلد دو و سه و از امیلی هم جلد دو و سه اش را دوست دارم. کودکی هایشان قشنگ است و همینطور بزرگسالی و زندگی زنانه‌شان. اما من نوجوانی می‌خواهم. می‌فهمید که؟
خلاصه که لذت بردم. مخصوصا آنجا که پدر کسیدی به امیلی گفت:" ادامه بده... ادامه بده..."
باید ادامه داد...

Mega przyjemna, potrzebowałam powrotu do mojego dzieciństwa w natłoku sprawdzianów:)

Although the main character is an eleven-year-old girl, this book is really written for the amusement of adults. It reminded me of Understood Betsy in this way. Children truly are so entertaining: their childish antics, innocent musings, a curiosity that would shame a cat, and their failed attempts at word usage, to name a few. Yes, any parent/adult who reads this will laugh out loud!

Although I found Emily somewhat annoying at first (she can be very "impertinent," talking back or bluntly speaking her mind to her elders; and this done both innocently or by provocation), she grew on me and I liked her a lot by the end. And she had a cast of very realistic and notable characters alongside her. Honorable mentions are Father Cassidy and Dean Priest - such funny, down-to-earth men. Don't forget witty Perry either, who has his heart set on marrying Emily.

Much of the book is humorous but there are certainly sad, sentimental, shocking and heart-warming moments as well. Maybe not "all the feels" but certainly close. A good solid book to turn to when you're wanting a book for you and not the children.

Ages: 13+

Content Considerations: nothing to note.

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داستانای مونتگمری اینطورین که باید براشون صبر کنی، ذره ذره خود واقعیشونو نشون میدن!
چقدر فصلای آخرو دوست داشتم، بحثای خاله الیزابت و امیلی، پدر کسیدی، دین پریست، آقای کارپنتر، مهربونیای جیمی، همه و همه باعث می‌شدن بخوان از کوه بالا برم تا به قله برسم.
کتاب مثل هر کتاب کلاسیک دیگه‌ای توصیف زیاد داره، اما دوست داشتنی و ملیحه.

It seems almost inevitable that anyone seeking to review L.M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon will find themselves comparing it to the author's most famous literary creation, n  Anne of Green Gablesn. Both books tell the story of a young orphan-girl who is sent to stay with elderly people on a Prince Edward Island farm, both feature a highly imaginative heroine who is appreciative of beauty and sensitive to ridicule, and both detail how that heroine wins a true home and family for herself.

But although Emily of New Moon and n  Anne of Green Gablesn follow a similar narrative trajectory, and although comparisons are only natural, there are significant differences between the two novels, and it is perhaps not entirely accurate to treat Emily and Anne as if they were simply two examples of the same character-type. Not only are they emotionally quite different - Emily an introvert and Anne an extrovert - they seem to be on widely divergent spiritual journeys.

While Anne travels from the interior to the exterior - replacing imaginary friends with real ones, and learning not to overindulge her imagination - Emily is better able to balance the demands of the interior and exterior, making real-life friends without sacrificing as much of her dream-world. She is after all, a poet and a writer, a vocation that is affirmed at the close of the novel.

I have seen this book described as "dark," or "serious," and many have noted that Emily is the most autobiographical of Montgomery's characters. I confess that Anne is my favorite - probably because I encountered her first - but there are unquestionably some areas in which Emily's narrative is the superior one. I found the supporting cast, particularly Emily's friend Ilse Burnley, far more engaging than their counterparts in n  Anne of Green Gablesn. The writing may be a little uneven, with a few vaguely purple passages, but there were also moments of intense emotional impact. I cannot read When the Curtain Lifted without feeling shivers down my back.

There is a bone-deep integrity to Emily that is very moving. I appreciate the fact that she seems better able to look past some of the religious identity-issues that are so dominant in Montgomery's world, from her friendly interaction with the marvelous Father Cassidy, to her sensitive and respectful attitude toward Ilse's atheism. All in all, she makes for an engaging heroine, more than equal to the famous Anne (my nostalgic loyalty notwithstanding).

چقدر کتاب شیرینی بود و واقعا باهاش همراه شدم،تمام لحظاتی که کتاب رو میخوندم تک تک تصاویر رو توی ذهنم تصور میکردم، پر از توصیفات زیبا بود و شاید اگه نوجوون بودم واین کتاب رو میخوندم حتی بیشتر ازش لذت می‌بردم. برم سریع تر جلد بعدی رو شروع کنم:))))