The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College and the grounds about them, throwing through the bare, budding maples and elms, delicate, evasive etchings of gold and brown on the paths, and coaxing into life the daffodils that were peering greenly and perkily up under the windows of the co-eds dressing-room. A young April wind, as fresh and sweet as if it had been blowing over the fields of memory instead of through dingy streets, was purring in the tree-tops and whipping the loose tendrils of the ivy...
The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College and the grounds abo...
Ive thought of something amusing for the winter, I said as we drew into a half-circle around the glorious wood-fire in Uncle Alecs kitchen. It had been a day of wild November wind, closing down into a wet, eerie twilight. Outside, the wind was shrilling at the windows and around the eaves, and the rain was playing on the roof. The old willow at the gate was writhing in the storm and the orchard was a place of weird music, born of all the tears and fears that haunt the halls of night. But little we cared for the gloom and the loneliness of the outside world; we kept them at bay with the...
Ive thought of something amusing for the winter, I said as we drew into a half-circle around the glorious wood-fire in Uncle Alecs kitchen. It ha...
I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it. The Story Girl said that once upon a time. Felix and I, on the May morning when we left Toronto for Prince Edward Island, had not then heard her say it, and, indeed, were but barely aware of the existence of such a person as the Story Girl. We did not know her at all under that name. We knew only that a cousin, Sara Stanley, whose mother, our Aunt Felicity, was dead, was living down on the Island with Uncle Roger and Aunt Olivia King, on a farm adjoining the old King homestead in Carlisle. We supposed we...
I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it. The Story Girl said that once upon a time. Felix and I, on the Ma...
Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and...
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L. M. Montgomery wrote this collection of short stories about Avonlea and the surrounding district. Her warm understanding of human nature and a love of the countryside is apparent is these stories for children. . There are 12 stories about residents of Prince Edward Island. Old Lady Lloyd has a secret and there is the 15 year long courtship of Theodora Dix. Stories included are: The hurrying of Ludovic -- Old lady Lloyd - Each in his own tongue -- Little Joscelyn -- The winning of Lucinda -- Old man Shaw's girl -- Aunt Olivia's beau - The quarantine at Alexander Abraham's -- Pa Sloane's...
L. M. Montgomery wrote this collection of short stories about Avonlea and the surrounding district. Her warm understanding of human nature and a love ...
Anne's true love, Gilbert Blythe, has finally become a doctor, and in the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
Anne's true love, Gilbert Blythe, has finally become a doctor, and in the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows...
Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She meets a rich, handsome bachelor, chases a cow, and wins a writing contest. Refusing Gilbert Blythe's marriage proposal, she begins teaching at Kingsport Ladies' College, an exclusive girls' school, where she runs into trouble with another teacher, Miss Brooke, and the Pringle clan (who turn out to be the family of the rich, handsome bachelor). Anne enjoys her adventures and makes many new friends, but eventually she decides to return to Avonlea. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch...
Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She meets a rich, handsome bachelor, chases a cow, and wi...
