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Summary: If you've seen the movie, read this book!
Review: I didn't even know that there was a book. All I ever knew was the old black & white movie with Rex Harrison. It was a movie I enjoyed. The book is a bit different from that movie. If you're looking for a "script" version, this will disappoint you. But, if you want to read the original words, then you will enjoy it. Some parts are a bit "slow". The ending will have you crying. Not a man's book.
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Summary: If you've seen the movie, read this book!
Review: I didn't even know that there was a book. All I ever knew was the old black & white movie with Rex Harrison. It was a movie I enjoyed. The book is a bit different from that movie. If you're looking for a "script" version, this will disappoint you. But, if you want to read the original words, then you will enjoy it. Some parts are a bit "slow". The ending will have you crying. Not a man's book.
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Summary: One of the most touching stories I've ever read.
Review: I first read this book about 15 years ago, and fell totally in love with it. It may be considered too syrupy for some by today's standards, but the story of Mrs. Muir, the Captain and Gull Cottage has the kind of everlasting love that lingers in the memory long after the book is closed. I have searched for many years for a copy of my own, and was thrilled to find it here at Amazon. The movie was okay, but the book, as usual, surpasses it.
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Summary: A Wonderful companion to the movie of 1947
Review: I love the book, although I must say that the movie is better. The book shows the development of the romance between Lucy and the Captain but you really see this in the movie. I didn't care for the development of the two children especially when Lucy visits with her son who is studying theology. Overall, I recommend the movie first and then the book.
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Summary: One of the best books!
Review: I really enjoyed this book, and have read it twice already. It's a very touching love story. A widow moves into and old Sea Captain's house and she is confronted my his ghost. It is a very beautiful and tender love story. Captain Daniel Gregg is a real commanding as well as romantic ghost. Lucy Muir, the young widow grows to love him instead of fear him. I sincerly think it is one of the best love stories ever written. This is a must read. It's a decent romance story, at the same time full of passion. There's never a dull moment and it is alwsy each page, captivating, romantic, and interesting.
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Summary: I love this story
Review: I searched for this book for many years, having fallen in love with the story after watching Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney portray Daniel Gregg and Lucy Muir. After many disappointments, I finally found a newly published edition. It is a wonderful story. Lucy is a recently widowed woman who overcomes all of the barriers placed upon her gender by society. With the help of the ghost (a sea captain), she becomes strong and resourceful. When she falls in love with a mortal man, Captain Gregg sacrifices his happiness so that she may be free to marry. After a few twists and turns, the tale concludes in a romantic and happy ending. I recommend this story.
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Summary: Still my favorite paranormal romance
Review: I've read plenty of recent paranormal romances, but none come close to The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. I read a so-so ghost romance last year, and it made me yearn to read this book again. Maybe this book rises above those others because it sets its ghostly element in a realistic setting populated with believable people. Sure, the captain is a crusy sailor, but there's a real person there, even if he is a ghost. Mrs. Muir holds her own, too -- none but the strong could endure that household. The book surpasses both the movie and the TV show. If you saw the movie, set aside your memories of it and read the book. (For one thing, the movie ruined the ending!) Anne M. Marble Reviewer, All About Romance
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Summary: Better than any film adaptation could ever be!
Review: Since the 1960s I have read The Ghost And Mrs. Muir well
over ten times and, having stumbled across the admiring reviews
herein, will start reading it again tomorrow. It is a wondrous
amalgam of fantasy and reality, of the yearning for romance and
the painful gaining of maturity. I am a fifty-five year old male
upset to usually find Leslie's novel categorized as "romance" fiction.
Her world followed Jane Austen's by over two hundred
years, but Leslie's novel has much of the wit and merit of Emma
or Pride and Prejudice.
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Summary: I thoroughly enjoyed the originality of this novel.
Review: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a wonderfully sentimental and imaginative portrait of what originality can accomplish. R.A. Dick did a fantastic job of composing a story with levity and hope in what could have been a very depressing tale. The reader is also given multiple opportunities to sympathize with some characters, while abhorring the natures of others. The most brilliant aspect of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is the way in which the story of Mrs. Muir, a lonely, passive widow who simply wants much deserved independence, is a truly universal tale. All of us, at some point in our lives, have yearned for freedom from our oppressions, no matter how great or small they may be. Personally, I found myself supporting Mrs. Muir as she "grew a back bone" and began to lash out at those things which bothered her. Throughout this novel, we see something which seemingly many characters of today's novels lack: growth. As for the lovable Captain Gregg, we see him evolve, also. In the beginning of the story, the seaman is not well received by Mrs. Muir nor the reader. However, as time progresses, Captain Gregg becomes compatible to Mrs. Muir and readers find themselves hoping that by some twist of fate, Mrs. Muir and Captain Gregg will find a way to be together for eternity. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a novel to be enjoyed by hopeless romantics and cynics alike. This novel, through humor, sadness, originality, a universal theme(though steeped in an unconventional story) and well-crafted characters with depth, gives everyone hope that our problems will be solved with some degree of success in due time.
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Summary: A Wonderful companion to the movie of 1947
Review: This book spawned both a feature movie (Rex Harrison played the dashing Captain)and a television show in the 70's. Finally, after many years of wanting to read the book, I found it on Amazon.com. It was well worth the wait!! Although the romance is tame by today's standards, it is a sweet love story about a young widow (Lucy) who finds a ghostly companion (Capt Gregg) in a sea-side cottage. They begin as friends and as the years pass, grow to love each other, but both know it is a hopeless relationship. The Captain helps Lucy maintain her freedom from a domineering mother-in-law, by helping her write a book about his life. It's rousing success! However, because of the book Lucy meets another man--a living man, and the Captain begins to realize that he must allow Lucy to fall in love and get on with her life. The romance proves to be a disaster for Lucy, and the Captain, feeling responsible, fades out of her life--but not forever... After you read the book--go rent the movie. This is one story I wish they would update and do a remake!
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