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What happens when a small lie feels easy, but kindness asks more of you?
In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901, L. M. Montgomery brings you into farms, villages, church suppers and school days. These early tales follow young and older people through ordinary choices, where honesty meets pride and a generous act can reach someone who feels overlooked.
The collection explores small-town life, the pull of an easy lie and the warmth of unexpected kindness. Lonely, odd and proud characters give these concerns a human face. Read together, the stories also reveal a young writer finding the warm, watchful voice that readers of Anne of Green Gables come to know.
What you’ll discover
- Small towns, closely observed Step into rural Canadian life, with its school days, church suppers and long neighbourly talk.
- Honesty under quiet pressure Follow everyday choices where a small lie or an act of pride would be easy.
- Kindness for the overlooked Meet lonely and proud people who soften beneath a warm word or generous gesture.
- A voice taking shape Discover early stories that show Montgomery learning her craft and looking closely at ordinary lives.
- Gentle stories, human stakes Find the human heart in small moral choices, without dark tones or complex plots.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy gentle, quick stories about kindness, honest young people, village gossip and surprising romance will love this collection. It also suits those who like Christmas cheer and shadowed old houses.
What’s inside
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- A Boy Confesses a Crime Nobody Noticed
- Poor Boys Carry Their Neighbors' Suspicion
- Christmas Gifts Soften Lonely and Proud Hearts
- A Spare Place at the Table Changes a Life
- Snubs and Schemes Fail Against Cheerful Courage
- Proud Young Men Misjudge the Women They Meet
- Two Brief Tales of Hearts Settled by Chance
- Two Stubborn Hearts Wait Years to Yield
- Love Lost, Hidden and Half Found by the Sea
- Shadows Fall When a Child or Friend Tells the Tale
Who’s who
- Dan PhillipsA thirteen-year-old trout fisherman who supports his family and learns he has trespassed. He wants to put things right, whatever it costs him.
- Mr. WaltersThe stern new owner of the pond and the factories, feared in the village. He wants one thing above all in the people who work for him.
- Jean LawrenceA warmhearted newspaper girl at a boardinghouse who thinks of a Christmas surprise for a lonely neighbor, and gets her friends to help.
- Miss Cornelia MillarA comfortable, proud, soft-hearted woman who has long wanted to make peace with her cousin and welcomes the schoolteacher into her home.
- Carol GoldenA sunny schoolgirl with a beautiful voice who must choose between inviting her idol and a lonely classmate for the holidays.
- Bertha SutherlandA bright, popular Academy student who gives away her own summer invitation so her poor, tired roommate can have a rest.
- Gussie AshleyA tall, capable young woman who runs her father's farm and mills, and who is determined to prove her cousin wrong about her.
- Miss CalistaA firm, fair-minded farm owner who needs a hired man and must decide what to do about a boy the village distrusts.
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Racconti brevi di Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1896-1901
Dan Phillips learns he has fished a stranger's pond all summer, and marches into the owner's office to confess.
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Would you walk into a factory owner's office to confess to a crime nobody knew about? Thirteen-year-old Dan Phillips does exactly that in the first story of this collection.
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A Boy Confesses a Crime Nobody Noticed
The collection opens with A Case of Trespass. Dan Phillips is a freckled boy of thirteen who fishes for trout in Carleton Pond all summer and sells his catch at the big hotels. His father is dead, his mother works without rest, and his sister Ella May lies ill.
One noon Dan unfolds an old newspaper and finds a notice from H. C. Walters, the new owner of the pond. Anyone fishing there will be prosecuted. Dan never saw it. His mother tells him to go to Mr. Walters and say everything.
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Montgomery, L. M. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/lucy-maud-montgomery-short-stories-1896-to-1901.
Montgomery, L. M. (2026). Lucy Maud Montgomery short stories, 1896 to 1901. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/lucy-maud-montgomery-short-stories-1896-to-1901
Montgomery, L. M. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/lucy-maud-montgomery-short-stories-1896-to-1901.
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What is Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories 1896 to 1901 about?
It gathers twenty early short stories about honesty, kindness, pride and love. They include Christmas tales, school stories, village romances and a few darker pieces with ghosts and storms, each short enough to read in one sitting.
Is this the same as Anne of Green Gables?
No. Anne of Green Gables is a novel, while this is a collection of separate short stories by the same author. They share Montgomery's warm humor, her gift for describing the seasons and the sea, and her interest in village life.
When were these stories written?
The title gives the period from 1896 to 1901. Montgomery wrote them as a young woman, when she was selling tales to magazines, and they show her trying out plots, voices and settings that she later used in her novels.
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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