Anne of the Island and Tales of Avonlea

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including Anne of the Island, Chronicles of Avonlea, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea
With Illustrations from the Early 1900s
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This collection includes Lucy Maud Montgomery's lovely novel Anne of the Island and two delightful anthologies of stories about the fictional town of Avonlea and the wonderful people who live there. The locale is Prince Edward Island, a setting the author knew well and loved, and one that will be familiar to anyone who has read her ever-popular Anne of Green Gables.
"We have come to a parting of the ways," says Anne Shirley to her best friend, Diana, as she prepares for college, and, with mingled reluctance and anticipation, sets out on the road to womanhood. In Anne of the Island, Anne begins a journey from adolescence to maturity. Leaving her home in Avonlea, the proud girl we met in Anne of Green Gables gradually blossoms into a fine young woman.
Anne of the Island tells of Anne's four years at Redmond College, a time of new friendships and a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

including Anne of the Island, Chronicles of Avonlea, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea
With Illustrations from the Early 1900s
CUfd
This collection includes Lucy Maud Montgomery's lovely novel Anne of the Island and two delightful anthologies of stories about the fictional town of Avonlea and the wonderful people who live there. The locale is Prince Edward Island, a setting the author knew well and loved, and one that will be familiar to anyone who has read her ever-popular Anne of Green Gables.
"We have come to a parting of the ways," says Anne Shirley to her best friend, Diana, as she prepares for college, and, with mingled reluctance and anticipation, sets out on the road to womanhood. In Anne of the Island, Anne begins a journey from adolescence to maturity. Leaving her home in Avonlea, the proud girl we met in Anne of Green Gables gradually blossoms into a fine young woman.
Anne of the Island tells of Anne's four years at Redmond College, a time of new friendships and a time when she must make her own choices about love and separate her infatuation with one suitor from the quiet, abiding love she finds with another. During these years, too, she learns of changes in the lives of her friends and neighbors in Avonlea and is filled with feelings of excitement as well as a certain sadness, especially when she hears of the tragic destiny of Ruby Gillis, whom she has known since childhood. But sadness is often tempered by joy and happiness, and Anne's college years are filled with romance and discovery, courtship and proposals. And, finally, there is the bittersweet day when she receives her college diploma, a day that marks, as Anne says,-the end of "an epoch."
(Continued on back flap)
(Continued from front flap)
In an exhilarating portrait of the people of that community, Chronicles of Avonlea details life in a small town. In the amusing and poignant "The Hurrying of Ludovic," a fifteen-year courtship is put to the test by crafty planning and a retiring interloper. There is an hilarious pairing in "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" when an unlikely couple are shut in together and through sheer stubbornness finally knock some sense into one another.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea extends the lively picture of this Canadian island town. Included are such witty tales as "The Materializing of Cecil," in which a local spinster impresses acquaintances with an anecdote about a beau from an imagined past, only to have a handsome man of the same name appear in town.
Anne of the Island and Tales of Avonlea is an outstanding collection that not only illuminates Anne's maturing years, but also explores the rich and colorful tapestry of Avonlea, a small town full of delightful people imbued with insight, style, wit, foolishness, and dreams. It is a book brimming with romance, pleasure, and old-fashioned inspiration.
Lucy Maud Montgomery published her first story when she was twenty-one years old. She achieved fame early in the twentieth century with the publication of Anne of Green Gables, and went on to write eight novels about Anne and her family, often drawing upon her own experiences.
Jacket photograph from "Anne of Green Gables—The Sequel" (also titled "Anne of Avonlea"), produced by Sullivan Films, Inc., in association with PBS/Wonderworks, The Disney Channel, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and with the participation of Telefilm Canada. The dramatic series is based on stories by L.M. Montgomery. Vissza