The Golden Road - The Original Classic Edition
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Golden Road. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by L. M. Montgomery, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs...
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Golden Road. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by L. M. Montgomery, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Golden Road: That is, it had been splendid at first; but later the fun went out of it because we found that Peter was, of malice prepense, allowing himself to be caught too easily, in order that he might have the pleasure of catching Felicity-which he never failed to do, no matter how tightly his eyes were bound. . . . Felicity remarked scornfully that she would have thought the Story Girl would get tired wearing red so much, and even Cecily commented apart to me that she thought when you got so many things all at once you didnt appreciate them as much as when you only got a few. . . . I know just how you feel about it, you daughter of Eve, she said, with gay sympathy, but December roads are damp, and if you are going to walk to Marrs you are not going to do it in those frivolous Parisian concoctions, even with overboots on; so be brave, dear heart, and show that you have a soul above little red satin shoes. . . . But he could not; he had a harp and he often tried to play on it; but his clumsy fingers only made such discord that his companions laughed at him and mocked him, and called him a madman because he would not give it up, but would rather sit apart by himself, with his arms about his harp, looking up into the sky, while they gathered around their fire and told tales to wile away their long night vigils as they watched their sheep on the hills. . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781486153565 (1486153569)
Publish date: June 15th 2012
Publisher: Emereo Classics
Pages no: 118
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Canada,
Young Readers
Series: The Story Girl (#2)
What a truly delightful little story. I'm referring not only to The Golden Road but also its first part The Story Girl, which should be read first to truly appreciate this novel, not to mention to be able to make sense of it.I find The Story Girl series to be light, fun and full of imagination. I've...