English · Beginner
Read Emily of New Moon in Englishwith every sentence explained
L. M. Montgomery · 1923
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About the book
Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery was first published in 1923. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked beginner and filed under children and young adult. It runs to about 112,800 words.
An orphan with a pen in her hand. A proud old family. A farm called New Moon.
Emily Byrd Starr has always lived with her beloved father in a little house in the hollow at Maywood, talking to the trees and the Wind Woman and waiting for "the flash", that rare moment when the beauty of the world seems to open up before her. Then her father dies, and Emily is left alone.
Her mother's relatives, the proud Murrays, make her draw lots to decide who must take her in. So Emily goes to New Moon Farm at Blair Water, on Prince Edward Island, to live with stern Aunt Elizabeth, gentle Aunt Laura and kind, odd Cousin Jimmy. There she finds new friends, new battles and one great dream: to become a writer.
Emily was L. M. Montgomery's own favourite heroine, a fiery, imaginative cousin to Anne of Green Gables, and Emily of New Moon is the first book of her much-loved trilogy.
- Author
- L. M. Montgomery
- First published
- 1923
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children, Young Adult
- Length
- About 112,800 words
How it opens
THE house in the hollow was “a mile from anywhere”—so Maywood people said. It was situated in a grassy little dale, looking as if it had never been built like other houses but had grown up there like a big, brown mushroom. It was reached by a long, green lane and almost hidden from view by an encircling growth of young birches. No other house could be seen from it although the village was just over the hill. Ellen Greene said it was the lonesomest place in the world and vowed that she wouldn’t stay there a day if it wasn’t that she pitied the child.
Reading Emily of New Moon in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of English and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
