Emily's Quest (Emily Novels) (Paperback)

by L.M. Montgomery (Author) "No more cambric tea" had Emily Byrd Starr written in her diary when she had come to New Moon from Shrewsbury, with her high school..." (more)
Key Phrases: Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Laura, Blair Water (more...)

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Emily knows she's going to be a great writer.  She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together.  But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses.  With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love ... as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy.  In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means....

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Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love ... as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means....

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf (July 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553264931
• ISBN-13: 978-0553264937
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #106,126 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A magnificent finale.., July 15, 2001

By	Rahul "a8784" (London, UK) - See all my reviews

Wonderful. As with all the Montgomery books, the beauty of the world captures you. Emily's Quest is a brilliant end to a most charming series of books. Its sadder - had to be, for Emily is no longer a child of 14. She is now 24, with unfulfilled dreams. Hence, there had to be mor etears. But the book statisfied all expectations, except to some extent the final chapter. Rarely has a romance been built up so beautifully and so truthfully as here - and it deserved a much better final chapter. My favourite chapter here is the one where the 24 year old Emily reads the letter written to her by the 14 year old Emily. I cried a long while as I read and reread the lines. I have read nothing as beautiful. In conclusion, this is a must-read. A romance for all ages - to live in a world that is beautiful and captivating, but which alas, no longer exists in this dark world of today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying Conclusion, April 29, 2000

By	Nikki Thean (Kuala Lumpur Malaysia) - See all my reviews

Emily's Quest is the third book in this trilogy. Emily, now struggling to be noticed as a writer, is deeply hurt when one of her dearest friends calls her stories 'pretty cobwebs'. Believing her childhood friend Teddy Kent cares nothing for her, she agrees to marry Dean, whom she does not love.

I loved this book. It is noticeably different from the other two books in this trilogy. In Emily of New Moon, Emily is a defiant, intelligent and brave little girl. In Emily Climbs, one of my favourites, she is blithe, brave and ambitious. Here, in Emily's Quest, she is more down-to-earth and she seems to be rather disillusioned. Although she is weary and heartsick at times, she is still 'Archibald Murray's granddaughter' and she can still glimpse her old starry world.

This book can make you cry, laugh or feel just as Emily feels at Ilse's news. Emily is as always a remarkably believeable character. Her trials and tribulations never fail to move you along in this conclusion to the Emily tales. I rather prefer Emily to Anne, although Anne is and will always be one of my favourites. She feels more deeply, is much more ambitious and somehow I love her more. She and all the other characters in this book are portrayed with humour and sympathy, and they are always believeable. The awkward scenes with Teddy (Emily's pride holds her back each time) are very well-written - it could almost be a true story.

This book does not preach or even try to, and overall it is a very satisfying conclusion to the other Emily tales.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The ending chapter......, December 14, 2003

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Look, it was amazing. Because I am going through a misunderstanding similar to what Emily went through, I loved it.
But......I thought she should have got out of Blair Water, maybe gone to New York for a year. It wouldn't have killed her.
The ending.....it really looked like she wouldn't end up with Teddy. And the way she just ASSUMES she means nothing to him.
Wasn't she jumping to conclusions a bit? How could she be so sure? And couldn't she have told her own best friend about who she was in love with? It would have made her easier to relate to for me. Cool down, girl.
The ending chapter, as others have said, was simply not complete enough. A description of her wedding.....that would have been nice. If not in this one then in some book Montgomery wrote after this about Emily. We deserved to know more. And I wanted more of Teddy around. We always heard what Emily thought of him, but there was so much of Dean and so little of Teddy. Why?
I like that Dean character. I think Montgomery does a good job of showing the vile parts of human nature when she writes of how Dean told Emily "The Seller of Dreams" was no good. I seriously got angry when I find out he had done that to her though. It made me wonder, how selfish of him....when he knew in part at least that that accident she suffered was his fault, how could he have had that happy summer with her furnishing the Dissapointed House?
The Dissapointed House is a wonderful metaphor by the way throughout the novel.
Write better and less SUDDEN! endings Emily is tons better than Anne. I like the ambition of the woman. Anne lost all that. There is more of a mutual respect thing between Teddy and her. They are both going after "Rainbow Gold." Wish there had been more talk of that between them during the book. Wouldn't have hurt if he had come back to visit more often. Was Maud seriously depressed when she wrote this? I later read her diary, which has been published and my college library has. Parts of Emily's diary are copied write out of Maud's. All those fits and starts they both experienced as young women. Well, given all Maud was going through I can understand. If you read more about Maud's life you'll understand why she wrote this book the way she did.