Anne of Ingleside, L.M. Montgomery’s twenty-fourth book, was published in July 1939 by McClelland & Stewart and Frederick A. Stokes Company.
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Related page: Reviews of Books by L.M. Montgomery: 1923–1939
About Anne of Ingleside
Anne of Ingleside is the tenth of eleven books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Anne Shirley Blythe, preceded by Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909), Chronicles of Avonlea (1912), and Anne of the Island (1915), Anne’s House of Dreams (1917), Rainbow Valley (1919), Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920), Rilla of Ingleside (1921), and Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) and followed by The Blythes Are Quoted (2009). It is also the last of her books to be published in her lifetime.
In Anne of Ingleside, Montgomery backtracks to the gap between Anne’s House of Dreams and Rainbow Valley, focusing the period when Anne and Gilbert’s children are young. Although in many ways it is a lighthearted book, the chapters show adult and child characters being disillusioned by misunderstandings or by cruel or insensitive people around them. The novel was published just a few months before the start of the Second World War.
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Contents
The novel consists of forty-one untitled chapters. The UK edition of the text divides the chapters differently, for a total of forty-three untitled chapters.