The Golden Road, L.M. Montgomery’s sixth book, was published in September 1913 by L.C. Page and Company (Boston).
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Related page: Reviews of Books by L.M. Montgomery: 1908–1921
About The Golden Road
The Golden Road, the sequel to The Story Girl, is the first novel that Montgomery wrote after her marriage and her move to Leaskdale, Ontario, where her husband was a Presbyterian minister. Perhaps not coincidentally, much of the book focuses on the inevitability of change.
This book formed part of the basis for the popular television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996), as did The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea.
“Many who have walked the golden road and perhaps left it behind will in reading this story look backward to their youth.”
—Utica Press
Epigraph
“Life was a rose-lipped comrade
With purple flowers dripping from her fingers.”
—The Author.
Dedication
To
the memory of
Aunt Mary Lawson
who told me many of the tales
repeated by the
Story Girl
Contents
Foreword
I. A New Departure
II. A Will, a Way and a Woman
III. The Christmas Harp
IV. New Year Resolutions
V. The First Number of Our Magazine
VI. Great-aunt Eliza’s Visit
VII. We Visit Cousin Mattie’s
VIII. We Visit Peg Bowen
IX. Extracts from the February and March Numbers of Our Magazine
X. Disappearance of Paddy
XI. The Witch’s Wishbone
XII. Flowers o’ May
XIII. A Surprising Announcement
XIV. A Prodigal Returns
XV. The Rape of the Lock
XVI. Aunt Una’s Story
XVII. Aunt Olivia’s Wedding
XVIII. Sara Ray Helps Out
XIX. By Way of the Stars
XX. Extracts from Our Magazine
XXI. Peg Bowen Comes to Church
XXII. The Yankee Storm
XXIII. A Missionary Heroine
XXIV. A Tantalizing Revelation
XXV. The Love Story of the Awkward Man
XXVI. Uncle Blair Comes Home
XXVII. The Old Order Changeth
XXVIII. The Path to Arcady
XXIX. We Lose a Friend
XXX. Prophecies
XXXI. The Last Number of Our Magazine
XXXII. Our Last Evening Together
XXXIII. The Story Girl Goes