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Chronicles of Avonlea: The Further Adventures of Anne of Green Gables
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617200144
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Oct 13 2010
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Chronicles of Avonlea returns readers to the Prince Edward Island village world made famous by Lucy Maud Montgomery, offering a collection of warm, comic, romantic, and gently observant stories set in and around Avonlea. These are not Anne Shirley novels, and Anne herself appears only briefly, but the collection belongs naturally beside Anne of Green Gables because it draws on the same rural community, neighbourly comedy, emotional generosity, sharp character observation, and deep affection for place.
First published in 1912, Chronicles of Avonlea gathers stories of courtship, pride, misunderstanding, reconciliation, family feeling, village eccentricity, and second chances. Montgomery's gift is her ability to make small communities feel morally and emotionally complete: a delayed confession, an old quarrel, a remembered love, or a foolish act of pride can carry the weight of an entire life. For readers of Anne of Green Gables, classic Canadian fiction, women's writing, short stories, rural fiction, and early twentieth-century village life, Chronicles of Avonlea is an appealing companion volume and a strong entry in Montgomery's Prince Edward Island world.
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