A Tangled Web (Voyageur Classics)
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Author: Lucy Maud MontgomeryIntroduction: Benjamin Lefebvre
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-30
ISBN: 1554884039
Number of pages: 296
Publisher: Dundurn
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Summary: 5 Stars
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.
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