Further Chronicles of Avonlea

Further Chronicles of Avonlea

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FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA
Which have to do with many personalities and events in and about
Avonlea, the Home of the Heroine of Green Gables, including tales of
Aunt Cynthia, The Materializing of Cecil, David Spencer's Daughter,
Jane's Baby, The Failure of Robert Monroe, The Return of Hester, The
Little Brown Book of Miss Emily, Sara's Way, The Son of Thyra
Carewe, The Education of Betty, The Selflessness of Eunice Carr, The
Dream-Child, The Conscience Case of David Bell, Only a Common
Fellow, and finally the story of Tannis of the Flats.
All related by L. M. MONTGOMERY
Author of "Anne of Green Gables," "Anne of Avonlea," "Anne of the
Island," "Chronicles of Avonlea," "Kilmeny of the Orchard," etc.

INTRODUCTION
It is no exaggeration to say that what Longfellow did for Acadia, Miss
Montgomery has done for Prince Edward Island. More than a million
readers, young people as well as their parents and uncles and aunts,
possess in the picture-galleries of their memories the exquisite
landscapes of Avonlea, limned with as poetic a pencil as Longfellow
wielded when he told the ever-moving story of Grand Pre.
Only genius of the first water has the ability to conjure up such a

character as Anne Shirley, the heroine of Miss Montgomery's first
novel, "Anne of Green Gables," and to surround her with people so
distinctive, so real, so true to psychology. Anne is as lovable a child as
lives in all fiction. Natasha in Count Tolstoi's great novel, "War and
Peace," dances into our ken, with something of the same buoyancy and
naturalness; but into what a commonplace young woman she develops!
Anne, whether as the gay little orphan in her conquest of the master and
mistress of Green Gables, or as the maturing and self-forgetful maiden
of Avonlea, keeps up to concert-pitch in her charm and her
winsomeness. There is nothing in her to disappoint hope or
imagination.
Part of the power of Miss Montgomery--and the largest part--is due to
her skill in compounding humor and pathos. The humor is honest and
golden; it never wearies the reader; the pathos is never sentimentalized,
never degenerates into bathos, is never morbid. This combination holds
throughout all her works, longer or shorter, and is particularly manifest
in the present collection of fifteen short stories, which, together with
those in the first volume of the Chronicles of Avonlea, present a series
of piquant and fascinating pictures of life in Prince Edward Island.
The humor is shown not only in the presentation of quaint and unique
characters, but also in the words which fall from their mouths. Aunt
Cynthia "always gave you the impression of a full-rigged ship coming
gallantly on before a favorable wind;" no further description is
needed--only one such personage could be found in Avonlea. You
would recognize her at sight. Ismay Meade's disposition is summed up
when we are told that she is "good at having presentiments--after things
happen." What cleverer embodiment of innate obstinacy than in
Isabella Spencer--"a wisp of a woman who looked as if a breath would
sway her but was so set in her ways that a tornado would hardly have
caused her to swerve an inch from her chosen path;" or than in Mrs.
Eben Andrews (in "Sara's Way")