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It is no exaggeration to say that what Longfellow did for Acadia, Miss Montgomery has done for Prince Edward Island. More than a million readers, young people as well as their parents and uncles and aunts, possess in the picture-galleries of their memories the exquisite1 landscapes of Avonlea, limned2 with as poetic3 a pencil as Longfellow wielded4 when he told the ever-moving story of Grand Pre.
Only genius of the first water has the ability to conjure5 up such a character as Anne Shirley, the heroine of Miss Montgomery's first novel, "Anne of Green Gables," and to surround her with people so distinctive6, so real, so true to psychology7. Anne is
as lovable a child as lives in all fiction. Natasha in Count Tolstoi's great novel, "War and Peace," dances into our ken8, with something of the same buoyancy and naturalness; but into what a commonplace young woman she develops! Anne, whether as the gay little orphan9 in her conquest of the master and mistress of Green Gables, or as the maturing and self-forgetful maiden10 of Avonlea, keeps up to concert-pitch in her charm and her winsomeness11. There is nothing in her to disappoint hope or imagination.
A part of the power of Miss Montgomery—and the largest part—is due to her skill in compounding humor and
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poetic
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adj.富有诗意的,有诗人气质的,善于抒情的 | |
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手持着使用(武器、工具等)( wield的过去式和过去分词 ); 具有; 运用(权力); 施加(影响) | |
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v.恳求,祈求;变魔术,变戏法 | |
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psychology
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winsomeness
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pathos
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sentimental
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adj.辛辣的,开胃的,令人兴奋的 | |
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glamor
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tragic
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reconciliation
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relentless
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adj.残酷的,不留情的,无怜悯心的 | |
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