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The Blythes Are Quoted is the last work of fiction by the internationally celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables. Intended by L.M. Montgomery to be the ninth volume in her bestselling series featuring her beloved heroine Anne – and delivered to her publisher on the very day she died – it has never before been published in its entirety.
This rediscovered volume marks the final word of a writer whose work continues to fascinate readers all over the world.
Adultery, illegitimacy, revenge, murder, and death – these are not the first terms we associate with L.M. Montgomery. But in The Blythes Are Quoted, completed at the end of her life,the author brings topics such as these to the fore.
Intended by Montgomery to be the ninth volume in her bestselling series featuring Anne Shirley Blythe, The Blythes Are Quoted takes Anne and her family a full two decades beyond anything else she published about them, and some of its subject matter is darker than we might expect.
Divided into two sections, one set before and one after the Great War of 1914–1918, it contains fifteen short stories set in and around the Blythes’ Prince Edward Island community of Glen St. Mary. Binding these stories are sketches featuring Anne and Gilbert Blythe discussing poems by Anne and their middle son, Walter, who dies as a soldier in the war. By blending together poetry, prose, and dialogue in this way, Montgomery was at the end of her career experimenting with storytelling methods in an entirely new manner.
This publication of Montgomery's rediscovered original work – previously published only in severely abridged form as The Road to Yesterday – invites readers to return to her earlier books with a renewed appreciation and perspective
About the Author
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, in 1874. After the death of her mother in 1876, Montgomery was raised by her maternal grandparents in the nearby community of Cavendish. She received a teaching certificate in 1894, and studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1895. After a brief career as a teacher at various island schools, she moved back to Cavendish in 1898. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald and moved to Leaskdale, Ontario, where Macdonald was minister in the Presbyterian Church. A prolific writer, she published a number of short stories, poems, and novels, but is best known for Anne of Green Gables and its sequels: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside. Montgomery died in Toronto in 1942 and was buried in her beloved Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
Benjamin Lefebvre, PH.D., is director of the L.M. Montgomery Research Group and editor of Montgomery's rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted. His most recent book is the co-edited collection of essays Anne's World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for LM Montgomery fans,
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This review is from: The Blythes Are Quoted (Paperback)
I grew up reading Anne of Green Gables and only recently discovered that there was a "sequel"! I couldn't not get my hands on it. While the short stories no longer follow the Blythe family, it was fun looking out for mentions of them, and trying to figure out where the particular story fitted in in the Blythe family timeline. While I love this book, I think it is definitely more for people who have read the Anne books and loved them. I'm not sure how mnuch charm it would hold for people who are new to the Blythes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hmmm - has Canadian scholarship lost its perspective in its enthusiasm about a "rediscovered" L.M. Montgomery publication?,
This review is from: The Blythes Are Quoted (Hardcover)
L.M. Montgomery is at her best where she is acerbic or humorous rather than sentimental; in the short stories in this "rediscovered" work there are plenty of examples of the former two characteristics, but the verse intercepted between the stories is - sadly - for the most part extremely light and "pretty", saved only by Susan Baker's dry comments. One can only hope that these remarks reflect a degree of distance from Anne's supposed poetic effusions on Montgomery's part.That said, fans of Anne (and Emily) will probably not be able to resist this book and will find much that may point them back to Montgomery's two best books, Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
REDISCOVERED GEM,
By Can Çömlekçi (Istanbul Turkey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Blythes Are Quoted (Hardcover)
THE BLYTHES HAVE BEEN QUOTED: For any reader who loves the writings of L.M. Montgomery this rediscovered last novel, published for the first time in its entirety, will be a treat. Apparently the manuscript of this novel had been delivered to Montgomery's publishers on the day of her death, thereby creating an air of mystery and speculation. The novel is beautifully bound and a joy to behold. The content of this work of fiction - a series of stories and poems and musings - has a distinctive tone and one that is darker than in other works by Montgomery. Although this is not the author's best piece of fiction - "The Blue Castle" may well be entitled to that honour - it is must-read for anyone who considers him/herself a serious reader of one of Canada's most beloved writers in particular and of Canadian literature in general.Can Çömlekçi Istanbul - Turkey
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