Chronicles of Avonlea
1912
Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of twelve warm, witty short stories set in the fictional village of Prince Edward Island that L.M. Montgomery populated with such care in her Anne novels. But here's the secret: Anne herself appears only fleetingly. These are stories about the other residents of Avonlea, the neighbors and farmers and dreamers who existed in the margins of Anne's world. There's Ludovic Speed, who has courted Theodora Dix for fifteen years without ever quite managing to propose, and the hilarious quarantine scenario where a man-hating woman and her cat are locked in with a woman-hating bachelor and his dog. There are stubborn lovers at Penhallow Grange who refuse to speak to each other for years, and Old Man Shaw waiting for his daughter to come home. Montgomery wrote most of these stories before Anne of Green Gables existed, then lovingly retrofitted them into her beloved village. The result is a book that captures something the Anne novels, for all their brilliance, only hint at: the texture of everyday life in a small community, where love moves slowly, gossip is a sport, and everyone has secrets they think no one notices.
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“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“She had a way of embroidering life with stars.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Desire grows by what it feeds on.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an antipathy to men and dogs was one of my strongest characteristics. I was noted for that. My experiences through life only served to deepen it. The more I saw of men, the more I liked cats.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“I CAN help people”
— L. M. Montgomery
“Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?''No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because you were coming home, baby,' said her father.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.””
— L. M. Montgomery
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