Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Nestled between the ocean and the hills of Prince Edward Island is a road that leads to the house where a girl named Anne grew up, Green Gables, and to the wonderful place called Avonlea. In this second volume of heartwarming tales a Persian cat plays an astonishing part in a marriage proposal ....
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Nestled between the ocean and the hills of Prince Edward Island is a road that leads to the house where a girl named Anne grew up, Green Gables, and to the wonderful place called Avonlea. In this second volume of heartwarming tales a Persian cat plays an astonishing part in a marriage proposal . . . a ghostly appearance in a garden leads a woman to the fulfillment of her youthful dreams . . . a young girl risks losing her mother to find the father she never knew . . . and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman the town's laughingstock when an imaginary lover comes to town for real! Filled with warmth, humor, and mystery, these unforgettable stories re-create the enchanting world of Avonlea.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553213812 (0553213814)
ASIN: 553213814
Publish date: 01-10-1989
Publisher: Starfire
Pages no: 199
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
Cultural,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Short Stories,
Canada,
Fiction,
Historical
Awful attitudes are so fore-fronted in this book, so much so that nostalgia can't save it. Sacrifice lauded above all common sense, women are bitter and/or tragic old maids without a man, and the overt racism, which in a lot of Montgomery is by omission as she much prefers to write about her white ...
Dalszy ciąg opowiadań „Z życia Avonlea”, których bohaterami są mieszkańcy Avonlea i okolic, czyli miejsc, gdzie dorastała Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza. Są to z humorem, a często z nutką wzruszenia przedstawione dzieje osób i rodzin, ich miłości, zaręczyn i ślubów, opisy rodzinnych sporów i pojednań, zab...
I'm not a big fan of short stories at all, but LMM is the one exception. Her short stories are generally just as charming as her full-length novels, and I thoroughly enjoyed this reading of them. Some of the stories were a lot darker and without the happy endings we're used to from her novels, but s...
More great Avonlea short stories.