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Further Chronicles of Avonlea: Stories from the World of Anne of Green Gables
Hardcover
FantasyClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515432029
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Further Chronicles of Avonlea returns to the village world made famous by Lucy Maud Montgomery, offering a fresh collection of stories set in and around Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. These tales are not an Anne Shirley novel, and Anne herself plays only a minor role, but the book belongs naturally beside the Anne books because it draws on the same imagined community, rural Canadian setting, humour, sentiment, romance, neighbourly observation, and sharp attention to character that made Montgomery's work enduringly beloved. First published in 1920, the collection followed Chronicles of Avonlea and continued Montgomery's exploration of the lives, courtships, quarrels, disappointments, reconciliations, and small triumphs of Avonlea's residents.
The strength of Further Chronicles of Avonlea lies in Montgomery's gift for making village life feel emotionally complete. She writes about ordinary people with affectionate comedy and clear-eyed understanding, giving weight to pride, loneliness, love, family feeling, memory, and the desire to be seen rightly by one's neighbours. For readers of Anne of Green Gables, classic Canadian fiction, women's writing, short stories, and early twentieth-century regional fiction, this collection offers an appealing companion volume: not a replacement for Anne's story, but a deeper visit to the social world around her. Montgomery's broader career included twenty novels and hundreds of short stories and poems, and her reputation remains closely tied to the Prince Edward Island world she made famous.
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