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Emily's Quest by Lucy Maud Montgomery, #65
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It was all right, not spectacular. The author was so focused on what was going on in Richard's head that I felt like all the other characters were just paper, including Ada Lethen. Some symbolism was quite obvious: the narcissus being the flower Persephone was plucking when she got abducted by Hades (I'm thinking that's why the name Ada), and Lethen being associated with the Underworld river Lethe, which imparts a kind of numbness to its crossers. Richard, a pilgrim-Crusader perhaps?
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