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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
You will love this if you enjoy gentle island settings, matchmaking and family quarrels, hidden sorrows in quiet villages, and short stories you can finish in one sitting.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Two comedies of small lies
- Two stubborn women learn to bend
- Grief and pride in two family tales
- Love that reaches across loss
- Matchmaking aunts and a jealous mother
- Guardians and a bedside promise
- A confession and a wedding morning
- A girl of the plains and a telegraph operator
- What the tales share and how they are told
Who’s who
- Sue MeadeThe narrator of the cat tale, she insists she does not want Max, and she and her sister are left to care for Aunt Cynthia's pet.
- Charlotte HolmesA forty-year-old spinster who invents a long-ago sweetheart to escape the pity of the Sewing Circle.
- Rachel SpencerA bride who insists that her father, a fisherman long estranged from her mother, must see her married.
- Robert MonroeThe quiet oldest brother of a successful family, who is called a failure by a proud aunt.
- Thyra CareweA widow whose whole heart is given to her only son Chester and who cannot bear to share him.
- Stephen DouglasA rich bachelor who takes charge of his late friend's daughter and plans every detail of her education.
- Eunice CarrA plain, loyal sister who has promised her dying mother to protect her younger brother Christopher.
- Tannis DumontA beautiful storekeeper's daughter at the Flats 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, a made-up lover and a ghostly child on the shore fill fifteen tales of Avonlea.
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What would you do if a spoiled cat vanished, or if you invented a lover and a man of that very name walked into town? Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of fifteen tales by L. M. Montgomery, set among the farms, harbors and church socials of Prince Edward Island.
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Two comedies of small lies
The collection opens with two comedies about people who stretch the truth and then must live inside it. In Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat, the sisters Sue and Ismay Meade agree to mind Fatima, a deaf, snow-white pet worth a hundred dollars. In The Materializing of Cecil, Charlotte Holmes, a forty-year-old spinster, is tired of being pitied.
Fatima disappears while Huldah Jane briefly visits the attic, and the sisters search the woods in panic. Max Irving, who has proposed to Sue eleven times, suggests buying a lookalike cat. Charlotte, cornered at the Sewing Circle by a young girl's question, claims she once had a sweetheart. She names him Cecil Fenwick, taking the surname from a newspaper advertisement for plasters.
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What is Further Chronicles of Avonlea about?
It is a collection of fifteen stories, mostly set in and around Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. They cover love, family quarrels, grief, gossip and sacrifice, in moods that range from comedy to ghostly mystery to tragedy.
Is Anne Shirley in Further Chronicles of Avonlea?
Anne has a small place in the collection. She is mentioned in several tales and narrates The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily. Most of the stories are about other villagers, so you can read the book without knowing the Anne novels.
Who wrote Further Chronicles of Avonlea?
L. M. Montgomery writes these fifteen tales of love, pride and sacrifice.
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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