POLLYANNA & Its Sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up

Combining Pollyanna (1913) with its sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915), this volume traces Pollyanna Whittier's movement from orphaned child to morally tested young woman. In the New England town of Beldingsville, her "glad game" unsettles habits of bitterness, class distance, and emotional reserve; later, in Boston and beyond, that ethic confronts poverty, illness, and romantic uncertainty. Porter's prose is lucid, affective, and theatrically paced, belonging to the sentimental and domestic tra ...