Green Dolphin Street (novel)
1944 novel by Elizabeth Goudge
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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]
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| Author | Elizabeth Goudge |
|---|---|
| Original title | Green Dolphin Street |
| Cover artist | Martin Sale |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Coward-McCann (US) |
Publication date | 1944 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
Plot summary
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]
