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Green Dolphin Street (novel)

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Green Dolphin Street or Green Dolphin Country
First edition (UK) with original name
AuthorElizabeth Goudge
Original titleGreen Dolphin Street
Cover artistMartin Sale
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHodder & Stoughton (UK)
Coward-McCann (US)
Publication date
1944
Publication placeUnited Kingdom

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]

Plot summary

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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. [5]

References

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  1. ^ Green Dolphin Street (1947 film) at IMDB
  2. ^ "Fortune from Book". Waikato Times: 5. 10 January 1945.
  3. ^ Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge at fantasticfiction
  4. ^ "Books of the Day". New Zealand Herald: 10. 27 January 1945.
  5. ^ "Latest Fiction". Advertiser: 4. 10 February 1945.