Green Dolphin Street is a novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by Hodder & Stoughton under the title Green Dolphin Country in 1944. The novel was adapted to a 1947 film.[1] The novel won a $125,000 prize offered by Louis B. Mayer for a novel suitable for filming.[2]
.jpg) First edition (UK) with original name | |
| Author | Elizabeth Goudge |
|---|---|
| Original title | Green Dolphin Street |
| Cover artist | Martin Sale |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Coward-McCann (US) |
Publication date | 1944 |
Plot summary edit
In the 19th century in the Channel Islands, the sisters Marianne and Marguerite fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne.[3] He emigrates to New Zealand, and writes home asking the one he loves to join him and become his wife, but by a slip of the pen he names the wrong sister. When Marianne arrives instead of his beloved Marguerite, he accepts the inevitable and strives to make their marriage a success.[4] After many years, William and Marianne return to the Channel Islands with their daughter.[5]
References edit
- ^ Green Dolphin Street (1947 film) at IMDB
- ^ "Fortune from Book". Waikato Times: 5. 10 January 1945.
- ^ Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge at fantasticfiction
- ^ "Books of the Day". New Zealand Herald: 10. 27 January 1945.
- ^ "Latest Fiction". Advertiser: 4. 10 February 1945.
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