Rebecca of Sunnybrook FarmHugely popular when it was first published in 1903 and admired by authors from Jack London to Mark Twain, this delightful novel introduced a heroine as irrepressible and fun-loving as Tom Sawyer, who would serve as a role model for a century of American girls and women. When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall comes to live with flinty aunt Miranda and her sentimental sister Jane in a small town in Maine, they expect to turn her into a proper young lady. Instead, Rebecca will end up changing them. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is as charming today as it was one hundred years ago and is unexpectedly poignant in its evocation of an America contemplating the choices open to women facing their futures in a new era. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
Contents
Introduction | vii |
Suggestions for Further Reading | xxiii |
A Note on the Text | xxv |
WE ARE SEVEN | 7 |
REBECCAS RELATIONS | 20 |
A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTS | 25 |
REBECCAS POINT OF VIEW | 33 |
WISDOMS WAYS | 38 |
SEASONS OF GROWTH | 112 |
GRAY DAYS AND GOLD | 120 |
REBECCA REPRESENTS THE FAMILY | 126 |
DEACON ISRAELS SUCCESSOR | 133 |
A CHANGE OF HEART | 140 |
THE SKY LINE WIDENS | 147 |
CLOVER BLOSSOMS AND SUNFLOWERS | 156 |
THE HILL DIFFICULTY | 166 |
SUNSHINE IN A SHADY PLACE | 47 |
RIVERBORO SECRETS | 53 |
COLOR OF ROSE | 59 |
ASHES OF ROSES | 64 |
RAINBOW BRIDGES | 71 |
THE STIRRING OF THE POWERS | 77 |
SEE THE PALE MARTYR | 83 |
SNOWWHITE ROSERED | 92 |
MR ALADDIN | 98 |
THE BANQUET LAMP | 105 |
ALADDIN RUBS HIS LAMP | 172 |
ROSES OF JOY | 179 |
OVER THE TEACUPS | 188 |
THE VISION SPLENDID | 195 |
TH INEVITABLE YOKE | 202 |
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER | 210 |
GOODBY SUNNYBROOK | 216 |
AUNT MIRANDAS APOLOGY | 221 |
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