A Tangled Web Lucy Maud Montgomery L M Montgomery Books
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The beloved author of Anne of Green Gables tells the classic tale of two remarkable families bound together by an uncommon legacy. Through the years, sixty Darks have married sixty Penhallows. Now the matriarch of the family has left a most unusual inheritance--an old brown jug. For a year the jug works its magic until the family learns of its final secret. A Bantam Starfire Book.
A Tangled Web Lucy Maud Montgomery L M Montgomery Books
An old jug left in secret legacy by a mischievous and temperamental old aunt: who knew that the inheritance of such a trivial (and undeniably ugly) object could lead to such drastic repercussions! Shattered friendships, broken hearts, rekindled romance...the Dark and Penhallow families experience them all and more when the clan matriarch, Aunt Becky, dies after her final "levee" during which she blistered each and every one of them with her tongue and started the kettle of emotions boiling with her unusual will and bequests.Following the funeral, Big Sam and Little Sam, friends for ages, suddenly find that they cannot stand each other's company...but can they learn to live apart? Beautiful Gay Penhallow, whose young heart is in raptures over her recent engagement, learns the painful lesson of the meaning of true love, as does Joscelyn Dark, who has spurned her husband for ten long years in order to remain true to her heart's desire. Brian Dark and Margaret Penhallow, each longing desperately for love and home, finally find solace for their aching hearts just as do Peter Penhallow and Donna Dark, longtime enemies who suddenly find in each other the lover they've been unconsciously searching for. In the year that follows Aunt Becky's death, until the day her secret is finally revealed, these and many other lives will be drastically changed. Just how much damage will the old jug do to this family and will its members survive the change?
This is a charming book set in Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved Prince Edward Island. Its colorful characters, descriptive scenery and interesting plot that employs a mixture of humor, pathos and sweet sentiment make for a comfortable read that leaves behind a pleasant sense of satisfaction at its close. Though I would certainly recommend that readers new to L.M. Montgomery's books read her more popular Avonlea books first, this was an enjoyable book and well worth the time spent.
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A Tangled Web Lucy Maud Montgomery L M Montgomery Books Reviews
This is a darling story. Although the never ending cast of characters ( and I do mean characters!) is sometimes a little daunting to keep up with, the writing is superb. It's worth the trouble. That just means that you really have to pay attention while you're reading.
Montgomery paints with a very detailed brush and the characters and sense of place come alive.
Different than her other books, this book is a refreshing change. There are a lot of characters in this book- so draw a family tree as you begin to read. The long first chapter was not one that I liked, but after that things picked up and I enjoyed this read.
This has moved up to my third favorite L.M Montgomery book! (Just after Anne of Green Gables and The Blue Castle.) It has laugh out loud moments and Montgomerys classic gossipy, hilarious, and lovable characters.
this book is very different from her other works but, of course there are the same principles in it. it actually consists of a lot of stories that are woven together by the fact that almost everyone belongs to the same family. the sories are very interesting and quite suspenful, as they only resolve towards the end of the book. and there is a secret throughout the whole story that i found myself bursting with curiosity to learn. in fact, there are a lot of secrets in this book. and of course, as it always happens with Montgomery's books, finally love and justice and goodness shine through every trouble the characters may have had to face.
The novel itself is a remarkable offering from Anne of Green Gables author L. M. Montgomery, but the introduction by Benjamin Lefebvre offers context into the historical, cultural, and literary world into which the book entered. Additionally, he discusses where Montgomery was in her writing career, pausing between the last two books of a series to explore a different sort of community and family, looking at a more modern and culturally specific world.
Highly recommended
Lucy Maud Montgomery's superbly entertaining 1931 novel, "The Tangled Web", features two intermarried and turbulent Prince Edward Island families, the Darks and the Penhallows. When the dying Aunt Becky Dark, keeper of clan secrets and owner of a prized heirloom jug, summons its principal members, the stage is set for melodrama, humor, and romance. Aunt Becky's will is that the jug be awarded to a deserving clan member one year from her death.
The competition for the jug puts the two families on their collective ears, setting off a series of entertaining and intersecting subplots. LM Montgomery dissects small town politics and family rivalries, in the process revealing a host of human foibles, much humor, and some heroism. An estranged couple will explore their ruptured marriage. A man and a woman who have always hated each will consider the prospect of marriage. An old maid will be offered marriage, but at a price. A cruelly neglected orphan boy will find affection with an unexpected pet and unexpected kindness from an adult, and a mad man will share wisdom.
If the destination of many of the subplots can be guessed in advance, the real pleasure of this book is Montgomery's ability to make the most of the journey, cleverly witholding the resolution of most of the subplots until the final pages.
"The Tangled Web" is very highly recommended to fans of L.M. Montgomery's novels.
This is one of two books targeted specifically to adults written by L. M. Montgomery. It involves the intentions of a well-meaning matriarch and the dispersal of her worldly goods. It is the totally funniest of her novels, besides being touching where that fits, too. In this one, they did have cars--about half the community was in buggies, and the other half had moved to the gasoline engine, so we are talking about 1920s, since the young men were WWI vets, too. That said, bring yourself to overlook an "of the period" the racist remark that comes in the last few paragraphs, and dont deprive yourself from reading this true-to-the-bone tale of rural North America, warts and all.
An old jug left in secret legacy by a mischievous and temperamental old aunt who knew that the inheritance of such a trivial (and undeniably ugly) object could lead to such drastic repercussions! Shattered friendships, broken hearts, rekindled romance...the Dark and Penhallow families experience them all and more when the clan matriarch, Aunt Becky, dies after her final "levee" during which she blistered each and every one of them with her tongue and started the kettle of emotions boiling with her unusual will and bequests.
Following the funeral, Big Sam and Little Sam, friends for ages, suddenly find that they cannot stand each other's company...but can they learn to live apart? Beautiful Gay Penhallow, whose young heart is in raptures over her recent engagement, learns the painful lesson of the meaning of true love, as does Joscelyn Dark, who has spurned her husband for ten long years in order to remain true to her heart's desire. Brian Dark and Margaret Penhallow, each longing desperately for love and home, finally find solace for their aching hearts just as do Peter Penhallow and Donna Dark, longtime enemies who suddenly find in each other the lover they've been unconsciously searching for. In the year that follows Aunt Becky's death, until the day her secret is finally revealed, these and many other lives will be drastically changed. Just how much damage will the old jug do to this family and will its members survive the change?
This is a charming book set in Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved Prince Edward Island. Its colorful characters, descriptive scenery and interesting plot that employs a mixture of humor, pathos and sweet sentiment make for a comfortable read that leaves behind a pleasant sense of satisfaction at its close. Though I would certainly recommend that readers new to L.M. Montgomery's books read her more popular Avonlea books first, this was an enjoyable book and well worth the time spent.
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