Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery’s second book, was published in September 1909 by L.C. Page and Company (Boston).
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About Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Avonlea is the second of eleven books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Anne Shirley Blythe, preceded by Anne of Green Gables (1908) and followed by Chronicles of Avonlea (1912), Anne of the Island (1915), Anne’s House of Dreams (1917), Rainbow Valley (1919), Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920), Rilla of Ingleside (1921), Anne of Windy Poplars (1936), Anne of Ingleside (1939), and The Blythes Are Quoted (2009).
Although legend suggests that Montgomery wrote Anne of Avonlea as a response to the runaway success of Anne of Green Gables, she actually was asked by her publisher to produce a sequel immediately after her first book was accepted. In fact, the publication of Anne of Avonlea was delayed by a few months because Green Gables continued to sell too well.
The novel was the basis for two television miniseries: the BBC production of Anne of Avonlea (which also borrowed from Anne of the Island) and the Sullivan Entertainment production Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (which aired on the Disney Channel as Anne of Avonlea: The Continuing Story of Anne of Green Gables).
Epigraph
“Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty,
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.” —Whittier
Dedication
To
my former teacher,
Hattie Gordon Smith,
in grateful remembrance of her
sympathy and encouragement
Contents
I. An Irate Neighbour
II. Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure
III. Mr. Harrison at Home
IV. Different Opinions
V. A Full-fledged Schoolma’am
VI. All Sorts and Conditions of Men . . . and Women
VII. The Pointing of Duty
VIII. Marilla Adopts Twins
IX. A Question of Colour
X. Davy in Search of a Sensation
XI. Facts and Fancies
XII. A Jonah Day
XIII. A Golden Picnic
XIV. A Danger Averted
XV. The Beginning of Vacation
XVI. The Substance of Things Hoped For
XVII. A Chapter of Accidents
XVIII. An Adventure on the Tory Road
XIX. Just a Happy Day
XX. The Way It Often Happens
XXI. Sweet Miss Lavendar
XXII. Odds and Ends
XXIII. Miss Lavendar’s Romance
XXIV. A Prophet in His Own Country
XXV. An Avonlea Scandal
XXVI. Around the Bend
XXVII. An Afternoon at the Stone House
XXVIII. The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace
XXIX. Poetry and Prose
XXX. A Wedding at the Stone House