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The Complete Chronicles of Avonlea
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This book contains both the Chronicles of Avonlea, and the Further Chronicles of Avonlea, collections of short stories by L. M. Montgomery, all of which are related to the Anne of Green Gables series. It features a abundance of stories relating to the inhabitants of the Canadian village of Avonlea and its region, located on Prince Edward Island.
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Lucy Maude Montgomery (1874-1942) was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the setting for Anne of Green Gables. She left to attend college, but returned to Prince Edward Island to teach. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan MacDonald. Anne of Green Gables, the first in a series of "Anne" books by Montgomery, was published in 1908 to immediate success and continues to be a perennial favorite.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is one of those books that I forget most of the stories the second I finish it but enjoy it enough to have reread it at least 3 or 4 times. I vaguely recall the stories each time but not the details. Even now, i just finished reading it again and I couldn't tell you much about the details of a lot of the stories. Not sure what that says about me as a reader. Maybe I've just read too many LLM stories and books over the last 30 years, and they kind of blend together. But they are almost always enjoyable, like eating a bowl of ice cream. You don't have to recall a certain favorite bowl of ice cream you ate, but you just keep eating it because you know it's going to keep on tasting good.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've read this book twice. The Avonlea folks are something else (and far too good at holding off their own fulfillment for petty reasons!) Makes you want to make the most of your own chances in life. Such an enjoyable read, even the second time around!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have read this collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery - the author of such beloved children's classics as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon - more times than I can count. But despite that fact, and no matter that I know what's coming, I never seem to be prepared for the emotional impact that some of these "Chronicles of Avonlea" have upon me. I always laugh when reading The Hurrying of Ludovic and The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's, thrill in sympathy at Each in His Own Tongue, and weep with Old Lady Lloyd and Little Joscelyn. Familiarity does not seem to lessen the power of these tales, nor does my awareness of their overt sentimentality detract from their appeal, and I return to them from time to time, always with a feeling of coming home. The treasures found in The Chronicles of Avonlea include:The Hurrying of Ludovic, in which Anne Shirley plays a role in bringing the courtship of Ludovic Speed and Theodora Dix to a happy conclusion...Old Lady Lloyd, in which a lonely old woman, reduced to poverty but too proud to ask for help, finds someone to love...Each In His Own Tongue, in which the loving but stern Mr. Leonard discovers that his grandson's gift for playing the violin is just as much a gift from God as his own call to the ministry...Little Joscelyn, in which elderly Aunty Nan has her fondest wish granted, when "Little Joscelyn," all grown up and a world-famous singer, comes to visit her one last time...The Winning of Lucinda, in which an fifteen-year-old quarrel between Lucinda and Romney Penhallow is most unexpectedly resolved...Old Man Shaw's Girl, in which a father and daughter are joyfully reunited...Aunt Olivia's Beau, in which Mary and Peggy Sterling witness the reunion of their old-maid aunt with Mr. Malcolm MacPherson, her suitor from years before...The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's, in which a man-hating, cat-loving woman, and a woman-hating, dog-loving man are unexpectedly stuck with each other due to a smallpox quarantine...Pa Sloane's Purchase, in which the elderly Pa Sloane returns from an auction with a most unusual "purchase"...The Courting of Prissy Strong, in which a long-abandoned courtship is resumed between Stephen Clark and Prissy Strong, despite the vehement objections of Prissy's older sister...The Miracle at Carmody, in which Judith Marsh decides that she does believe in God after all, when her sister Salome's lameness is cured...And finally, The End of a Quarrel, in which Nancy Rogerson and Peter Wright get a second chance at love, and this time don't let bad grammar stand in their way...Addendum: Not unexpectedly, my latest reread of Chronicles of Avonlea, for our August discussion, over in the L.M. Montgomery Book-Club to which I belong, has only confirmed my love for these stories. Their humor, both broad and subtle, was just as appealing as ever, and their sense of pathos just as moving. I was particularly struck, this time around, by the importance of religion in so many of Montgomery's stories, and by the truly respectful and intelligent way in which issues of the spirit are handled in her text. It's not that the ubiquity of religious belief - usually of an unbending Presbyterian sort - in the society Montgomery is depicting had escaped me before, but it occurred to me, as I was reading, that her work stands above so many other popular stories in which religion plays an important role because there is no hidden didactic aim in her writing (she is not writing to convince you of anything), there is no hateful, smug sense of superiority (the one true atheist, Judith and Salome Marsh's father, in Miracle at Carmody, is described as a loving and thoughtful man), and there is no sense of religious authority being above challenge, or incapable of error (even the saintly Rev. Leonard, in Each in His Own Tongue, discovers that he is wrong, and that the sinful old reprobate, Abel Blair, is right). I think that it is this quality, this way of treating religion seriously, as a meaningful part of people's emotional and intellectual lives, rather than just as a "practice," but without descending (usually) into any sort of treacly sentimentality about it, or displaying any unctuous piety, that spoke to me so strongly, as a girl, and still does. This is akin to the sort of religious upbringing I had. How lovely to discover that I am kindred spirits with L.M. Montgomery in yet another way!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One thing Ms. Montgomery had and that was a knack for short stories. Each one in this collection has a satisfying completeness to it. If I had to pick a theme running through each of the twelve stories I would say it is love in all its different varieties. Some stories pose pride against love and others celebrate the power of love to change a person. These stories are only loosely tied to the Anne of Green Gables series in the form of short references to one of the characters in the series, though all are set in the towns around Avonlea. Some of the situations or types of characters in this collection of stories show up in other collections or even in the novels themselves, which is interesting in terms of how Ms. Montgomery practiced her craft.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My favorite of the Anne of Green Gables series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's not easy to write about childhood favourites in other than glowing terms. I can see all the things I would criticise - even dislike - had I first read this book now. The overwhelming heteronormativity, the association of singlehood with a poorer, less worthwhile life, the demonstration that any woman who says she doesn't want to marry is lying both to herself and everyone else, that women are the houseworkers and that a man who cleans house is an oddbod, rare and remarkable, but laudable if he is a single dad.
On the other hand, I love these stories. They make me happy. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I understand it, this was compiled as a companion to the Anne books, without really being intended to be considered part of the series. The stories are interesting - they're nice in that L.M.M. kind of way, but they lack that special something that other stories taking place in Anne's "universe" have. They don't seem to have the same heart. At the same time, I found it somewhat difficult to fit them into the sequence of the stories mentally, as their timeframes are very vague. It's a nice companion to the Anne novels for someone wanting more, and the stories are certainly not bad, but I was left wanting more from them.