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This book has fifteen short stories about Avonlea, a small farming place on Prince Edward Island in Canada. You will meet a lady whose pet Persian cat makes the whole neighborhood argue. You will meet a man who, for a long time, is only a name in letters, until one day he really shows up. There are old fights that end kindly, and people who find love when they are no longer young.
This is a book of fifteen short stories, all set in and around Avonlea, a farming village on Prince Edward Island. In one, a lady's Persian cat makes the neighbors quarrel. In another, a suitor exists only in letters, until the day he materializes. There are old feuds, late in life romances, and children who understand more than the grown-ups.
The stories are built small and neat. Each one takes a single knot in village life, a quarrel, a secret, a misunderstanding, a hope, and unties it in a few scenes. Montgomery knew exactly how a small community talks, judges, and forgives, so every character sounds true. The comedy is dry, which means quiet and clever, and the sad parts are gentle, never cruel.
It works because Avonlea feels like a real place that goes on living between the stories. The people are funny and flawed, but Montgomery is kind to nearly all of them, so finishing a story feels like leaving kind neighbors. Readers who love Anne of Green Gables can walk the same shore roads here and meet new friends.
These fifteen stories return to Avonlea and the farms and shore roads around it, the Prince Edward Island world Montgomery's readers already loved. There is a Persian cat that sets a neighborhood at odds, a suitor who exists only in letters until the day he materializes, old feuds softened, and second chances at love late in life. The comedy is dry, the sentiment earned, and every story knows exactly how a small community talks, judges, and forgives.
These fifteen stories return to Avonlea and the farms and shore roads around it, the Prince Edward Island world that L. M. Montgomery's readers already loved. A Persian cat sets a neighborhood at odds. A suitor who exists only in letters faces the day he materializes. Old feuds soften, second chances at love arrive late in life, and children see more clearly than their elders. Montgomery assembled the collection from stories written across her career, but the reading gives no hint of patchwork: the comedy is dry, the sentiment is earned, and every story knows its small community from the inside.
Starvard shelves Further Chronicles of Avonlea as the companion to Chronicles of Avonlea, with no stories in common between the two books, so the pair can be read in either order or back to back. It earns its place as a portrait of a place so fully imagined that readers still travel across the world to see it. Anyone who loves Anne's island, gentle comedy, and stories about how small towns talk, judge, and forgive will settle into this collection like a familiar kitchen.
Edition: Text: Project Gutenberg ebook 5340.
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FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA
Title: Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Author: L. M. Montgomery
Release date: March 1, 2004 [eBook #5340]
Most recently updated: April 4, 2019
Language: English
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FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA
Author of "Anne of Green Gables," "Anne of Avonlea," "Anne of the Island," "Chronicles of Avonlea," "Kilmeny of the Orchard," etc. Which have to do with many personalities and events in and about Avonlea, the Home of the Heroine of Green Gables, including tales of Aunt Cynthia, The Materializing of Cecil, David Spencer's Daughter, Jane's Baby, The Failure of Robert Monroe, The Return of Hester, The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily, Sara's Way, The Son of Thyra Carewe, The Education of Betty, The Selflessness of Eunice Carr, The Dream-Child, The Conscience Case of David Bell, Only a Common Fellow, and finally the story of Tannis of the Flats. All related by
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