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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children`s novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her aunts, one stern and one kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca`s joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. Wiggin wrote a sequel, New Chronicles of Rebecca. Eric Wiggin, a great-nephew of the author, wrote updated versions of several Rebecca books, including a concluding story. The story was adapted for the theatrical stage and filmed three times, once with Shirley Temple in the title role, as well as a Japanese animated short as part of the Anime Tamago project. The novel opens with Rebecca`s journey from her family`s farm to live with her two aunts, her mother`s older sisters Miranda and Jane Sawyer, in their brick house in Riverboro. Rebecca is the second-oldest of seven children. The family is quite poor. In the book`s last section she has become a young lady with the same high spirit and a talent for writing.
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ISBN : 9789353249786
Pages : 240
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