The Correct Elizabeth Goudge Novel

[rushthatspeaks]

Right, I have like seventeen things I am wanting to write and fifty-three things I really ought to do, but I am also sick and exhausted, and as a result it has started actively bothering me again that one of the best books in the world is not in print, so I thought I would rant about it

Comments

[anna_wing]

Henrietta's House is the first Goudge that I ever read. I had never even heard of Valley of Song.

[anonymous]

I HAVE A COPY!!! (Of The Valley of Song) If I transcribed it, should I make my fortune? No? Oh well, I'll just go on enjoying it. I wanted to read it to my grandchildren, and as we are away from home at present, I was looking on the net to see if I could download a copy! This is how I stumbled on this site. Oh well, we will have to wait till we are home again. I shall read the Little White Horse to them as well. My Mum, (b.1904) brought our family up on Elizabeth's books, as I have my own children. Now it is the grandchildrens' turn! The Dean's Watch could well be the next on the list!

[houseboatonstyx]

Scanning for personal use is not, sfaik, enforceably illegal? And in the Goudgeverse, any manuscript abandoned in a vacant house will be found by a charmingly dressed differently abled lady who wants it for fire-starters, and....

[anonymous]

I was able to find a copy not too horribly expensive, though more than I usually pay for even EG's books and just finished reading it. I tried to make it last as long as possible so as to savor her wonderful prose. It's a gem. It is also somewhat of a meditation loosely based on the 104th Psalm, made into a gorgeously word-painted story. Having read most of her works many times over the past 50 or so years, I can say this one is a new favorite. My only peeve with this 1951 edition, with the fine line drawings you mention, is that the centaur in the line drawing does not at all match the description of him in her words. Oh well, still it is a wonderful book. I cried too, all though the final chapter. It's a real thrill to at last own a copy of this which was her own personal favorite among her children's stories, or so I've read. I can see why.