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In Avonlea, neighbors know your family, your faults, and perhaps the feelings you cannot bring yourself to name.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea gathers fifteen short tales by L. M. Montgomery, set in and around a farming village on Prince Edward Island. Here, courtship moves slowly, family pride gets in the way, and old grudges linger. Shy, proud, or stubborn people struggle to say what they feel while a close community watches their business.
The collection explores village life, awkward love, sacrifice, and old wounds through small, complete stories. Loss, loneliness, and family duty give these quiet lives weight. Montgomery tells each tale with a friendly voice and an eye for the telling habit or sharp remark. For readers who want more of Anne's island world, Avonlea offers familiar ground beyond Anne herself.
What you’ll discover
- A village that watches Step into a farming community where neighbors know each other's families, farms, and faults.
- Love that comes slowly Meet people whose pride or shyness makes the simplest feelings difficult to express.
- Old wounds, quiet lives Explore how loss, duty, and wrongs from long ago shape the lives of ordinary people.
- Characters in a few lines Notice how a telling habit or sharp remark brings a village character into focus.
- One tale at a time Enjoy complete stories whose small scale leaves room for warmth, loneliness, and difficult feelings.
Who will love it
Readers who love gentle small-town fiction, Prince Edward Island scenery and short stories for quiet evenings will enjoy this. Fans of Anne of Green Gables will feel at home.
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- Pride and a small fib spin comic trouble
- Stubborn hearts are tested by family and by time
- Grief and overlooked love both need to be seen
- Love lost can reach across death and years
- Quick judgment and fierce jealousy shape two lives
- Duty can quietly turn into love, or into sacrifice
- Conscience and character are tested in the open
- A beautiful girl and a careless man collide
- Avonlea watches, judges and, at last, forgives
- Voices, weather and setting carry each story
Who’s who
- Sue MeadeA proud young woman in Spencervale who keeps refusing Max Irving and must look after her rich aunt's pampered cat.
- Charlotte HolmesA forty-year-old spinster in Avonlea who writes secret poems and invents a sweetheart to escape pity.
- Rachel SpencerA bride-to-be who insists her estranged father come to her wedding, even though her strong-willed mother forbids it.
- Miss Rosetta EllisA fussy, talkative spinster who has not spoken to her sister in ten years and wants her dying cousin's baby.
- Robert MonroeThe oldest Monroe sibling, a modest farmer by the shore whom his famous family forgets and an aunt calls a failure.
- Stephen DouglasA bachelor who undertakes to raise his late friend's tomboy daughter Betty and to find her a worthy husband.
- Eunice CarrA plain, loyal girl who promises her dying mother to protect her younger brother Christopher at any cost.
- Tannis DumontA proud, beautiful storekeeper's daughter at a remote trading station who loves the English telegraph operator Jerome Carey.
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Nuevas crónicas de Avonlea
by L. M. Montgomery · 1920
A lost Persian cat, an invented sweetheart and a ghostly child call out across fifteen tales of Avonlea.
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What would you do if you invented a long-lost sweetheart to silence a sewing circle, and then a real man with that very name stepped into the village? Charlotte Holmes faces exactly that in this book.
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Pride and a small fib spin comic trouble
The first two tales are comedies of embarrassment, told by the very people caught in them. In Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat, Sue Meade and her sister Ismay must look after Fatima, a deaf white cat, while their wealthy aunt visits Halifax.
Then Fatima disappears from the kitchen. The sisters send for Max Irving, who has proposed to Sue eleven times. Max suggests buying a lookalike cat to fool the nearsighted aunt. But a telegram from Halifax sends every plan sideways, and Max names a price for his help that has nothing to do with money.
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Montgomery, L. M. Further Chronicles of Avonlea. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/further-chronicles-of-avonlea.
Montgomery, L. M. (2026). Further chronicles of Avonlea. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/further-chronicles-of-avonlea (Original work published 1920)
Montgomery, L. M. Further Chronicles of Avonlea. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/further-chronicles-of-avonlea.
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What is Further Chronicles of Avonlea about?
It is a collection of fifteen short stories, mostly set in and around Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. The tales follow ordinary villagers through comic mix-ups, family feuds, hidden love and moments of sacrifice, and Anne Shirley appears only briefly.
Do I need to read Anne of Green Gables first?
No. Each story stands on its own with its own characters and setting. Anne and Diana appear in a couple of tales, but readers new to Avonlea can enjoy every story without any background.
Is Further Chronicles of Avonlea a novel or short stories?
It is a set of fifteen separate short stories rather than a single novel. Each has its own narrator, mood and cast, so you can read them one at a time, in order or in any order you like.
The author
L. M. Montgomery
1874–1942 · Canadian novelist
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian writer born on Prince Edward Island. She later lived in Ontario, where she died in Toronto. She wrote novels, short stories and poems. Her novels include Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909) and The Blue Castle (1926).
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