"I've thought of something amusing for the winter," I said as we drew into a half-circle around the glorious wood-fire in Uncle Alec's 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...

Nestled between the ocean and the hills of Prince Edward Island is a road that leads to the house where a girl named Anne grew up, Green Gables, and to the wonderful place called Avonlea. In this second volume of heartwarming tales a Persian cat plays an astonishing part in a marriage proposal . . . a ghostly appearance in a garden leads a woman to the fulfillment of her youthful dreams . . . a young girl risks losing her mother to find the father she never knew . . . and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman the town's laughingstock when an imaginary lover comes to town for...

The secluded old apple orchard in which Eric Marshall, a young Canadian, finds the beautiful, though dumb, Kilmeny, is on Prince Edward Island. Eric is the son of a wealthy man and had come to a small village on the island to teach school for a month as a substitute for a sick friend. In one of his rambles he comes upon the old orchard, and hearing strains of music is tempted to investigate. He finds Kilmeny alone playing a violin. At sight of him the girl rushes away. The young man, however, is fascinated by her beauty and loses no time in finding out how he can make her acquaintance ......

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.

The Story Girl By L. M. Montgomery Author of "Anne of Green Gables," "Anne of Avonlea," "Kilmeny of the Orchard," etc.

The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business. They spend their leisure time with their cousins Dan, Felicity and Cecily King, hired boy Peter Craig, neighbour Sara Ray and another cousin, Sara Stanley. The latter is the Story Girl of the title, and she...

Come Celebrate Christmas with Anne of Greene Gables and many of your other beloved friends from Prince Edward Island. Collected here are twelve wonderful holiday stories from a better simpler time. Each story provides plenty of scope for imagination. L. M. Montgomery's writing is witty and wonderful spread the holiday season with her and her delightful characters.

Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1911 Very Good, and Plus. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1911. First Edition and First Impression (stated). Frontis and front cover pastedown color illustrations by George Gibbs. Small octavo, 365 pp. + ads. Light blue cloth, gilt imprinting, pastedown illustration. Corners just touched, light soil at places, previous owner's bookplate and previous owner's signature, neat little bookseller's stamp Smith Bros., Oakland] on rear pastedown for the collector of those. Better than Very Good. See scans. Nicely-preserved first edition by the author of Anne of Green Gables. The...

"My favorite among my books."
-L. M. Montgomery
She's only fourteen, but she can weave tales that spark the imagination and touch the heart. Meet Sara Stanley, better known as The Story Girl. She's L.M. Montgomery's most enchanting heroine since Anne of Green Gables.
Here in the charming, old-fashioned town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear the Story Girl narrate her spellbinding tales in a voice so pure, so vibrant, so golden, it could melt a heart of stone.