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Trama e riassunto di La strada d'oro
- 8 min di lettura
- 10 parts
- Audio a breve
Children on a Prince Edward Island farm write their own magazine and take shelter with a witch in a blizzard.
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La strada d'oro in breve
Riassunto: 8 min di lettura
- Tempo di lettura
- Circa 5 h 5 min4 h fast, 6 h 5 min slow
- Durata
- 72.700 parole
- Livello nella biblioteca
- Medio longer sentences, everyday words
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1913by L. M. Montgomery
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La strada d'oro in short
The Golden Road follows one year in the lives of the King cousins and their friends on a Prince Edward Island farm. A magazine, started on a stormy night, ties the seasons together. Around it come tales told in the orchard, a snowstorm and a witch, a lost cat, a lovesick schoolboy, weddings, a concert gone wrong, and a midnight walk.
What La strada d'oro is about
What would you do on a wild November night, with a wood fire roaring and a kitchen full of cousins, if your plan needed everyone to agree? Beverley King and the Story Girl have one. They want the children of two farm households to write a newspaper of their own, and they must trick Felicity into thinking it was her idea.
The Golden Road is a novel by L. M. Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables. Beverley tells it as a grown man looking back at one year on a Prince Edward Island farm.
A chi è rivolto. You will love this if you enjoy warm family stories, country life on the Island, quarrels that end in laughter, tales within tales, or if Anne of Green Gables is a favorite.
The story in 10 parts
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A winter plan gives each child a job
It begins on a wild November night in Uncle Alec's kitchen, with rain on the roof. The cousins have played blind man's buff until the game goes flat. Beverley then offers an idea he has hatched in secret with the Story Girl. They will write a newspaper of their own and fill it with everything they do.
The Story Girl knows Felicity will oppose anything she suggests. So she sneers at the plan out loud, and Felicity jumps to defend it, with Peter close behind.
They settle on the name Our Magazine, so that nobody is left out. Then Beverley hands out the departments. Dan gets etiquette, Felicity the household column, Cecily fashion, and Peter fiction and poetry. Sara Ray becomes advertising manager, a title that sounds grand and means very little. A shared project can turn a houseful of rivals into a team.
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Stories told aloud carry the children away
The Story Girl, whose real name is Sara Stanley, answers any pause with a tale.
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New Year resolutions show what each heart is like
On New Year's Eve the cousins write resolutions, to be pinned on bedroom walls with a cross added for every failure.
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A mistaken guest teaches the family a lesson
One Saturday in February the grown-ups go to Charlottetown and leave the children alone.
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A snowstorm brings them to Peg Bowen's door
In March the children walk to Baywater to visit Cousin Mattie Dilke.
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Spring brings a lost cat and a lovesick boy
Spring comes late, and then Paddy, the Story Girl's gray cat, disappears.
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Weddings, concerts and a midnight walk mark June
Peg's hint comes true when Aunt Olivia announces she will marry Dr. Robert Seton of Halifax.
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Growing up is the shadow over every sunny page
Under the fun, the book keeps a worry that grows more audible.
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Imagination and kindness are the true treasures
Again and again the plain world is lit by those who can see more in it.
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A grown man remembers the year with laughter and light
The whole book is told by Beverley King, who looks back from a distance of many years.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Beverley King The narrator and editor of Our Magazine, a city boy spending the year on the farm, who looks back on it as a grown man.
- The Story Girl (Sara Stanley) The cousin whose voice holds everyone spellbound, who tells tales from old books and neighbors and sees colors in thoughts.
- Felicity King The pretty, proud cousin who prides herself on cooking, good manners and being right, and who quarrels with nearly everyone.
- Cecily King Felicity's gentle sister, kind to everyone, who wants to stay a little girl and collects names for a missionary quilt.
- Dan King Beverley's stubborn, sharp-tongued cousin who loves a joke, hates fuss, and answers Felicity with sweet names.
- Felix King Beverley's younger brother, cheerful and plump, who worries about his weight and edits the jokes and the information bureau.
- Peter Craig The loyal hired boy who adores Felicity, quotes his Aunt Jane, and writes stories and an ode.
- Sara Ray A timid neighbor girl who cries easily, obeys her strict mother, and blunders into trouble at the worst moments.
How it ends (spoiler)
The Story Girl and her father, Uncle Blair, leave for Paris, and Beverley and Felix will go home to Toronto. Aunt Janet weeps while the children, after a last evening around the old well, agree not to say goodbye. They wave as the Story Girl's buggy reaches a curve in the road. Then the Story Girl is gone. The narrator adds that Cecily will not grow old.
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What is The Golden Road about?
It follows one year in the lives of the King cousins and their friends on a Prince Edward Island farm, with their handwritten magazine, stories, pranks, weddings, and the quiet change that comes as childhood moves on.
Who is the Story Girl in The Golden Road?
She is Sara Stanley, a fifteen-year-old cousin with a golden voice, who tells tales from old books and neighbors. She lives nearby, loves the color red, and sees colors in every thought she has.
Is The Golden Road a sequel to The Story Girl?
Yes. It continues with the same children and farm households and refers to the first volume of the family chronicles. It reads well on its own, since every chapter gives a clear, self-contained scene.
What does the golden road mean in the book?
The preface describes it as a beautiful highway through the land of lost delight, the happy road of youth. It stands for childhood's shadow and sunshine, which grown people remember but cannot walk again.
Is The Golden Road easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that the chapters are short and lively, the dialogue is quick and funny, and each episode stands on its own. The magazine pages and the tales make it pleasant to read aloud.
Cita questa edizione
Montgomery, L. M. The Golden Road. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-golden-road.
Montgomery, L. M. (2026). The golden road. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-golden-road (Original work published 1913)
Montgomery, L. M. The Golden Road. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-golden-road.
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