Chronicles of Avonlea
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00D33AMXG
Publish date: July 29th 2009
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
Kojarzycie może rudowłosą, wygadaną dziewczynkę, która zwała się Anią? Tak, to ta z ogromną wyobraźnią, niewyparzonym językiem, inteligentna, uparta i bardzo sympatyczna. Ta, która była ulubioną towarzyszką w dzieciństwie wielu dzieci, zwłaszcza dziewczynek. Zgadza się, mowa o Ani Shirley! Dodam jes...
A selection of cozy, feel-good short stories. I like that LMM doesn't try anything new in her short stories, but that they're just short versions of her novels, and that the atmosphere is the same. My favourite is "Old Lady Lloyd" which - who'd have thunk! - also happens to be the longest ;-)
Great for those of us that can't get enough of Avonlea. Anne features in a few short stories, but not all.
First of all, a lot of these short stories were reused in her novels, so the plots can begin to sound very familiar. Second of all, most of the stories in this volume and its companion were mined for plots for episodes in the "Road to Avonles" tv series.