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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories: 1896 to 1901

door L. M. Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942.… (meer)
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At first I was a little unsure about these stories but after a few I had a hard time putting them down. Just delightful...I needed something like this to read ;) ( )
  mcsp | Jan 25, 2021 |
I did read this short story collection a few years ago when I was laid up sick with the flu. Actually I read all of L.M. Montgomery's free Kindle books stories at that time. One of these days I will post my reviews of the Anne of Green Gable books.

This collection consists of 20 short stories. Some are about the power of friendship, romantic in others, some are ghost stories, and some are even about love that is thwarted.

I will say that I wish that the stories had been linked together in a way that made sense, such as all of the romance stories one after another, then to lost love stories, and maybe to the ghost stories.

I have to say that I really only have four stories that I gave five stars to and the rest after were above average and some I did not care for at all.

A Case of Trespass (1897)-3.5 stars.
A typical feel good L.M. Montgomery story about a young youth who does the right thing and is rewarded by it.

A Christmas Inspiration (1901)- 3 stars.
Since I have read all of the short stories I could get my hands on, I know that I read something similar to this in her other collection. And I swear the whole premise may have been in one of the Anne of Green Gable books.

A Christmas Mistake (1899)- 3 stars.
A very good Christmas story, but there is no real tension at all.

A Strayed Allegiance (1897)-2 stars.
I really hated this whole storyline and did not care for the hero and heroine. I did feel for one of the characters named Marian Lesley. I wish that we could have followed what happened to her.

An Invitation Given on Impulse (1900)-2 stars.
This reminded me of many poor relation finds out they have rich relation so now the world is alright stories that seemed to be common place back then.

Detected by the Camera (1897)-3 stars.
A whodunit story that was interesting.

In Spite of Myself (1896)-5 stars.
This one actually made me laugh a few times. A man meets a woman who is very set in her ways and finds himself falling for her.

Kismet (1899)-1 star.
This was one of my least favorite stories. A horse race decides the outcome of a marriage. Both hero and heroine have been estranged for some time based on this very short story. I noticed that this theme pops up a lot in other stories by L.M. Montgomery.

Lilian's Business Venture (1900)- 3 stars.
An okay story about a young woman determined to start her own business.


Miriam's Lover (1901)-3.5 stars.
An okay ghost story, I have read better, but this one was very anticlimatic.

Miss Calista's Peppermint Bottle (1900)-3 stars.
Once again someone is given a chance after telling the truth. I don't know why, but these stories kind of always made me laugh a bit. Maybe because they actually don't ring true as written.

The Jest That Failed (1901)-5 stars.
A bunch of snobby girls get their comeuppance when a trick they play on a classmate actually goes in her favor.

The Pennington's Girl (1900)-5 stars.
A case of mistaken identity that turns into love. I liked this one a lot as well and it reads like a story that the character Anne Shirley would have swooned over with her bosom friend Diana when they were young.

The Red Room (1898)-4 stars.
Another ghost story that I liked a lot. I wish that the ending had been a bit better. Instead it just kind of plops there. I was waiting for something else to happen.

The Setness of Theodosia (1901)-2 stars.
Another estranged marriage over something that makes no sense.

The Story of an Invitation (1901)- 3 stars.
Once again someone does something that turns out for the best for a character who was listless and disagreeable to start with.

The Touch of Fate (1899)-3 stars.
An okay romantic story. I have never been a fan of two people just not having any sense to tell the other what they feel.

The Waking of Helen (1901)-1 star.
I read this one twice and I still don't get or like it.

The Way of Winning Anne (1899)-5 stars.
I liked this one though I don't think I could have been as patient as the hero Jerome. A very cleverly done romance story.

Young Si (1901)-2 stars.
Beyond stupid. I liked the romantic parts of the story, but the ending where the hero and heroine go off without a word to people because they think that there newfound friends would not understand. Dumb as anything.

I would recommend for fans of Anne of Green Gables to read some of L.M. Montgomery's stories. Themes repeat themselves a lot. And some of the stories are incorporated into the Anne of Green Gable books though with name changes. That part did sadden me a bit since it does seem that L.M. Montgomery recycled a lot of her stories. ( )
  ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |
Please note that the rather low star rating is not meant to be a comment on L.M. Montgomery's wonderful short stories (for the most part, they deserve a four or five star rating), but on the user-unfriendly way in which Dodo Press has presented/published them. When I first became aware of the Dodo Press collection of Montgomery short stories, I was excited, because from the title, it appeared as though the stories would be arranged chronologically. However, while the stories contained in the collection are, indeed, those written from 1896-1901, the stories themselves have been arranged in random order. So if you were/are looking forward to finally being able to read L.M. Montgomery's short stories in actual order of appearance, this fact will make it much more difficult.

What I find even more problematic though, is the lack of a usable table of contents. While both the stories and their date of appearance are listed at the beginning of the book, Dodo Press has not deemed it necessary to supply the starting pages for the stories. Thus, if you desire to read a particular story, or if you are trying to read the stories chronologically, you will need to guess on which page a particular story actually commences. I do not understand why Dodo Press could not have arranged the stories by year of appearance, and it is simply unacceptable that the table of contents is so user-unfriendly.

Finally, this collection of short stories is also not going to be of much use for anyone wishing to use it for academic purposes, as there is neither an introduction nor is any of the source material listed. Now an introduction would have been beneficial, but not necessary, but Dodo Press should really have listed the magazines, journals etc. in which the stories originally appeared. I still enjoyed reading the stories, but the set-up is certainly a major disappointment, and I feel that I should warn other fans of L.M. Montgomery's fiction about the shortcomings of this collection (the other five books of the collection are arranged in a similar fashion and thus equally frustrating to and for me). ( )
  gundulabaehre | Mar 31, 2013 |
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Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942.

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