Rilla of Ingleside

Anne's children are almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one can resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside becomes endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and leaves her changed forever.

Epigraph

"Now they remain to us forever young
Who with such splendour gave their
youth away."

—Sheard

Dedication

"To
the memory of
FREDERICA CAMPBELL MACFARLANE
who went away from me when the dawn broke on January 25, 1919—a true friend, a rare personality, a loyal and courageous soul."

Contents

1. Glen "Notes" and Other Matters
2. Dew of Morning
3. Moonlit Mirth
4. The Piper Pipes
5. "The Sound of a Going"
6. Susan, Rilla, and Dog Monday Make a Resolution
7. A War-Baby and a Soup Tureen
8. Rilla Decides
9. Doc Has a Misadventure
10. The Troubles of Rilla
11. Dark and Bright
12. In the Days of Langemarck
13. A Slice of Humble Pie
14. The Valley of Decision
15. Until the Day Break
16. Realism and Romance
17. The Weeks Wear By
18. A War-Wedding
19. "They Shall Not Pass"
20. Norman Douglas Speaks Out in Meeting
21. "Love Affairs Are Horrible"
22. Little Dog Monday Knows
23. "And So, Goodnight"
24. Mary is Just in Time
25. Shirley Goes
26. Susan Has a Proposal of Marriage
27. Waiting
28. Black Sunday
29. "Wounded and Missing"
30. The Turning of the Tide
31. Mrs. Matilda Pitman
32. Word from Jem
33. Victory!
34. Mr. Hyde Goes to His Own Place and Susan Takes a Honeymoon
35. "Rilla-My-Rilla!"

Information

• Author: L. M. Montgomery
• Publishers: McClelland & Stewart (Toronto, Canada) and the Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York, United States)
• Date: Autumn 1921
• Link: Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery @ Classic Reader

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