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Pollyanna
Sign in to savePollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Reece, published in 1997.
Book · Open Library
- Author
- Eleanor Hodgman Porter
- First published
- 1912
- Editions
- 552
- Subjects
- Aunts, Cheerfulness, Classic Literature, Conduct of life, Family, Fiction, History, Interpersonal relations
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Key facts
- Book.name
- Pollyanna
- Book.image
- Pollyanna (Eleanor Porter book) first edition cover.jpg
- Book.caption
- First edition
- Book.author
- Eleanor H. Porter
- Book.publisher
- L.C. Page
- Book.language
- English
- Book.country
- United States
- Book.genre
- Children's literature
- Book.pages
- 285
- Book.isbn
- 1-55748-660-3
- Book.oclc
- 33897078
- Book.wikisource
- Pollyanna
- Book.media_type
- Print (hardcover)
- Book.followed_by
- Pollyanna Grows Up
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Characters
- Influence
- List of Pollyanna books
- Glad Books
- Further sequels
- Adaptations
- 1915 play
- 1920 film
- 1954 telenovela
- 1958 telenovela
- 1960 film
- 1971 film
- 1973 serial
- 1982 TV movie
- 1986 TV series
- 1989 film
- 2003 film
- 2018 telenovela
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Reece, published in 1997.
Due to the book's fame, "Pollyanna" has become a byword for someone who, like the title character, has an unfailingly optimistic outlook; a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. Despite the use of the term to mean "excessively cheerful", in the context of the novel it means to always see the good side of the situation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pollyanna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.