Further Chronicles of Avonlea
1920
Further Chronicles of Avonlea is not Anne's story. It belongs to the gossips, the dreamers, and the secret-keepers of Prince Edward Island. In this 1920 collection, L.M. Montgomery turns her luminous eye from Green Gables to the wider village, crafting fifteen vignettes where a missing Persian cat becomes an instrument of romance, a ghostly figure leads a woman back to her abandoned dreams, and a young girl's desperate search for her unknown father threatens to break her family apart. The humor runs through like bright water: a fabricated lover who unexpectedly arrives in town, schemes to preserve reputation, the gentle tyranny of community opinion. Montgomery understood something essential about small places, that every household holds a drama, every quiet neighbor harbors a past, and respectability is both armor and prison. These are stories of second chances and long-hidden truths, of people who discover that the lives they've been living are not the only ones possible. For readers who loved Anne, these tales offer something different and equally precious: the world she grew up in, seen from the other windows of Avonlea.
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“It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“There’s a kind of failure that’s the best success””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Grief is ever proud.””
— L. M. Montgomery
