Further Chronicles of Avonlea

Name: Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: L. M. Montgomery
ISBN: 9781433267413

Author: L. M. Montgomery

Narrator: Grace Conlin

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 10/17/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Welcome, once again, to the charming byways of Avonlea and its people, as created by one of Canadas most beloved authors. In this volume of heartwarming tales, a Persian cat plays an amazing role in a marriage proposal, a young girl risks losing her mother in her quest to find her father, and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman the towns laughingstock. These fifteen short stories together present a piquant and fascinating picture of life in the villages and country surrounding Avonlea.

About L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was one of the most famous Canadian writers of the twentieth century. She is best known for her books for young adults, particularly Anne of Green Gables and its six sequels chronicling the adventures of Anne Shirley, a feisty but sentimental orphan who is adopted by elderly foster parents. In her lifetime, Lucy published 20 novels and some 500 short stories and poems. Her writing, rich in imagination and full of lessons in optimism, brought her international fame and remains popular today.

Lucy was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. Soon after her mother died (when Lucy was just two), her father remarried and moved away. He left Lucy to be raised by her maternal grandparents in Cavendish. The isolation of this small town combined with the strict discipline of her grandparents led to an unhappy childhood.

Lucy was an avid reader and writer at an early age. She published her first poem in a local paper at the age of fifteen. She studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, then returned to Cavendish to take care of her grandmother, worked at a local post office, and became a schoolteacher.

While caring for her grandmother, she wrote Anne of Green Gables. Several publishers rejected the book before it was finally accepted, and it became a bestseller. Eventually, it was made into a musical, a television movie, and a television series. Lucy later married a minister and moved to Ontario, where she died in 1942.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on April 28, 2021

Further Chronicles of Avonlea by: L.M. Montgomery Chronicles of Avonlea book 2 I really do love the Anne of Green Gables series. And the collection of short stories that L.M Montgomery has written about the town and Townies are amazing! Aunt Cynithia's Persian Cat: Aunt Cynthia left her beloved cat Fa......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 17, 2023

This is a continuation of the Chronicles of Avonlea, another 15 chapters devoted to 15 sets of people in Avonlea around the same time that Anne came to Green Gables. To be honest I found this a absolute bore but then short stories generally aren't my thing. I have however now finished the full Anne......more

Goodreads review by Anne on June 26, 2016

Another wonderful collection of charming Avonlea short stories, ranging from the humorous to melodramatic, and every bit as enticing and delightful as the first book, Chronicles of Avonlea. I was going to give it a full 5, but the last few stories weren’t quite so good as the rest, and I was a teeny......more

Goodreads review by Marlene on November 28, 2017

"I guess," said Aunt Isabel, aside to the little school teacher, as she wiped the tears from her keen old eyes, "that there's a kind of failure that's the best success." -- The Brother Who Failed Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920, L. C. Page & Co.), second in the Chronicles of Avonlea series by......more

Goodreads review by Kris on December 27, 2017

It hurts my heart to write this review. Truly, the Anne books and Emily of New Moon are some of my favorite books, and I adored L.M. Montgomery because of them. I could excuse all the other stories in the book, even if I found them trite and overly dramatic, and really overplaying the unhealthy pare......more