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Montgomery, Lucy Maud. I was born on November 30, 1874, in Prince Edward Island, a colorful little land of ruby and emerald and sapphire. I came of Scotch ancestry with a dash of English, Irish, and French from various grands” and “greats.”
My mother died when I was a baby and I was brought up by my grandparents in the old Macneill homestead at Cavendish. . . eleven miles from a railroad and twenty-four from a town, but only half a mile from one of the finest sea-beaches in the world. I went to the “district school” from six to seventeen. I devoured every book I could lay my hands on. Ever since I can remember I was writing stories and verses. My early stories were very tragic creations. Almost everybody in them died. In those tales battle, murder, and sudden death were the order of the day.
When I was fifteen I had a “poem” published in a local paper. That gave me the greatest moment of my life. Then I qualified for a teacher’s license at Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and taught three years. During those and the following years I wrote all kinds of stuff. Most of it was rejected but enough was accepted to encourage me. Eventually I won a place as a writer of stories for young people.
I had always hoped to write a book . . . but I never seemed able to make a beginning. I have always hated beginning a story. When I get the first paragraph written I feel as if it were half done. To begin a book seemed quite a stupendous task. Besides, I did not see how I could get time for it. I could not afford to take time from my regular writing hours. In the end I never set out deliberately to write a book. It just “happened.” One spring I was looking over my notebook of plots for a short serial I had been asked to write for a certain Sunday School paper. I found a faded entry, written many years before. “Elderly couple apply to orphan asylum for a boy. By mistake a girl is sent them.” I thought this would do. I began to block out the chapters, devise incidents, and “brood up” my heroine. “Anne” began to expand in such a fashion that she seemed very real to me. I thought it rather a shame to waste her on an ephemeral seven-chapter serial. Then the thought came: “Write a book. You have the central idea and the heroine. All you need to do is to spread it over enough chapters to amount to a book.” The result was Anne of Green Gables.
I wrote it in the evenings after my regular day’s work was done. I typewrote it myself on my old second-hand typewriter that never made the capitals plain and wouldn’t print “m’s” at all. Green Gables was published in 1908. I did not dream that it would be the success it was. I thought girls in their ‘teens might like it but that was the only audience I hoped to reach. But men and women who are grandparents, boys at school and college, old pioneers in the Australian bush, Mohammedan girls in India, missionaries in China, monks in remote monasteries, premiers of Great Britain, and red-headed people all over the world have written to me telling me how they loved Anne and her successors. Since then I have published sixteen books. Twenty-three years ago I married a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Ewan Macdonald, and came to Ontario to live. I like Ontario verymuch, but anyone who has once loved “the only island there is” never really loves any other place. And so the scene of all my books save one has been laid there. And in my dreams I go back to it.
List of my books: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne’s House of Dreams, Rain- bow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, Emily’s Quest, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, The Blue Castle, Pat of Silver Bush.

Emily of New Moon

Emily of New Moon – Lucy Maud Montgomery

In the story little Emily Byrd Starr, aged eleven, has been left an orphan. We are in time to see the death of her father, Douglas Starr, an unsuccessful journalist, and to learn that though he had never been forgiven for having eloped with Juliet Murray, yet the Murray pride is such that the family will certainly provide for Juliet’s daughter. It is decided by the drawing of iots that she shall go to New Moon with two of her aunts. New Moon, called after the ship in which the Murrays sailed from the old country, had been built more than a century ago; the family had spread and, prospered, its tentacles Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Short Stories 1907 – 1922

The Short Stories 1907 – 1922 – Lucy Maud Montgomery

The author, well known and famous for her Green Gables stories, has written a wealth of beautiful short stories, all set in the Canadian landscape of Ontario or Prince Edward Island. This edition contains the best of them and offers all stories from 1907 through 1922, including:

A Millionaire’s Proposal
A Substitute Journalist
Anna’s Love Letters
Aunt Caroline’s Silk Dress
Aunt Susanna’s Thanksgiving Dinner
By Grace of Julius Caesar
By the Rule of Contrary
Fair Exchange and No Robbery
Four Winds
Marcella’s Reward
… and many more …

 

The Short Stories 1907 - 1922

The Short Stories 1907 – 1922

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The Short Stories 1907 – 1922.

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The Short Stories 1904 – 1906

The Short Stories 1904 – 1906 – Lucy Maud Montgomery

The author, well known and famous for her Green Gables stories, has written a wealth of beautiful short stories, all set in the Canadian landscape of Ontario or Prince Edward Island. This edition contains the best of them and offers all stories from 1904 through 1906, including:

A Fortunate Mistake
An Unpremeditated Ceremony
At the Bay Shore Farm
Elizabeth’s Child
Freda’s Adopted Grave
How Don Was Saved
Miss Madeline’s Proposal
Miss Sally’s Company
Mrs. March’s Revenge
Nan
Natty of Blue Point
… and many more …

 

The Short Stories 1904 - 1906

The Short Stories 1904 – 1906

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The Short Stories 1904 – 1906.

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The Short Stories 1896 – 1903

The Short Stories 1896 – 1903 – Lucy Maud Montgomery

The author, well known and famous for her Green Gables stories, has written a wealth of beautiful short stories, all set in the Canadian landscape of Ontario or Prince Edward Island. This edition contains the best of them and offers all stories from 1896 through 1903, including:

A Case of Trespass
A Christmas Inspiration
A Christmas Mistake
A Strayed Allegiance
An Invitation Given on Impulse
Detected by the Camera
In Spite of Myself
Kismet
Lilian’s Business Venture
.. and many more …

The Short Stories 1896 - 1903

The Short Stories 1896 – 1903

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The Short Stories 1896 – 1903.

ISBN: 9783849696566

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The Further Chronicles of Avonlea

The Further Chronicles of Avonlea – Lucy Maud Montgomery

From the author of “Anne of Green Gables”, of whom Mark Twain said: “She is the dearest and most moving and delightfut child since the immortal Alice.” These new stories of Avonlea, the home of the immortal heroine of Anne of Green Gables, are written with the same wonderful understanding of human nature that the author has shown in her previous work, and have repeated the success of the famous “Anne” books.

The Further Chronicles of Avonlea

The Further Chronicles of Avonlea

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The Further Chronicles of Avonlea.

ISBN: 9783849696559

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The Chronicles of Avonlea

The Chronicles of Avonlea – Lucy Maud Montgomery

Miss Montgomery continues to follow up the vein she opened in “Anne of Green Gables.” These stories are all of Spencervale or Avonlea. Anne herself —or what we hope to be a caricature of her—appears on the cover, and is mentioned now and again within. But she is not the leading figure in any of the tales, which might have been called “Romances of Middle Age,” so strongly does a single motive dominate them. Ten out of the dozen stories deal with belated love-affairs, or with the pathetic devotion of age for youth.

The Chronicles of Avonlea

The Chronicles of Avonlea

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The Chronicles of Avonlea.

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Kilmeny of the Orchard

Kilmeny of the Orchard – Lucy Maud Montgomery

The secluded old apple orchard in which Eric Marshall, a young Canadian, finds the beautiful, though dumb,Kilmeny, is on Prince Edward Island. Eric is the son of a wealthy man and had come to a small village on the island to teach school for a month as asubstitute for a sick friend. In one of his rambles he comes upon the old orchard, and hearing strains of music is tempted to investigate. He finds Kilmeny alone playing a violin. At sight of him the girl rushes away. The young man, however, is fascinated by her beauty and loses no time in finding out how he can make her acquaintance.

Kilmeny of the Orchard

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The Golden Road

The Golden Road – Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Golden Road, a sequel to “The Story Girl,”, will have a warm welcome by all who are familiar with the author’s stories; and if there are any who do not know them, here is an opportunity to get acquainted. Prince Edward Island is again the setting of scenes of lovely meadow views, and the adventures of the King family are full of the same spirit of joyousness that has made this author a favorite one with various classes of readers. This book completes a romance of Aunt Oliva, begun in a previous story.

The Golden Road

The Golden Road

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The Golden Road.

ISBN: 9783849696528

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The Story Girl

The Story Girl – Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Story Girl is an exquisitely written narrative of the doings of eight children during a Summer spent on an old farm near Charlottetown, Prince Edward’s Isle. Chief among them is the Story Girl—a child of fourteen, with a wonderfully vivid and original imagination and exceptional histrionic powers, whose fanciful tales arc interspersed through the record of the joys and petty sorrows which are the lot of healthy, happy children. The author has an intuitive knowledge of child nature and the characters are all real flesh and blood children. Few and far between are books like this, and hence they give a greater pleasure to the reader who is carried back to his Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Rilla of Ingleside

Rilla of Ingleside – Lucy Maud Montgomery

A simple, wholesome love story in which the well-loved Anne, of “Anne of Green Gables” fame, appears, now the mother of six irresistible — and irrepressible — children. The story overflows with real humor and pure romance. It solves no problems, there is no hint of hate in it—it is just a simple love story chronicling the everyday events in a community of kindly people whose lives are the counterpart of other lives the country over.

Rilla of Ingleside

Rilla of Ingleside

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Rilla of Ingleside.

ISBN: 9783849696597

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