A Fully Annotated Edition

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Annotated and with a Preface by Jen Rubio


When Emily’s father dies and she is left orphaned, she must go live with relatives at the New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island. Emily is a deeply sensitive child; few of her proud Presbyterian relatives approve of her “artistic temperament.”

New Moon is a fascinating old farmstead that Emily grows to love, full of tradition and story and beauty. But unlike Green Gables, there are dark shadows: tales of insanity, anger, bitterness, and betrayal are woven in the narrative quilt that Emily inherits. Drawn in particular to one of the dark stories that has left an undercurrent of anger and sadness into the lives of those around her, Emily finds ways of exploring the depth of human experience on her journey to artistic knowledge.

Written in 1923, during Montgomery's years in Leaskdale, Ontario, this novel about childhood glimpses into the often dark and mysterious world of adult life explores artistic perception in a way unlike any of Montgomery's other novels. Echoes of Emily can be found in other major works of female bildungsromaner, like Alice Munro's The Lives of Girls and Women and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners.

This extensively annotated edition includes dozens of notes that illuminate the historical and literary background to the novel, illuminating its complexity and meaning in a completely new and revealing way. Vintage photographs relating to the novel's setting are also included.

ISBN-13:  978-1-77244-056-0

Paperback, 5.5" X 8.5", 266 pages, $19.95