Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery

by L.M. Montgomery

contains:

*Anne of Green Gables series
*Emily trilogy
*Pat of Silver Bush series
*The Story Girl series
*Kilmeny of the Ochard
*The Blue Castle
*Magic for Marigold
*A Tangled Web
*Jane of Lantern Hill
*Chronicles of Avonlea
*Further Chronicles of Avonlea
*Uncollected Short Stories
*Poetry
*Non-Fiction
*Autobiography
*secondary literature

Genres: Classics

6775 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 2012

About the author

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author whose novels, stories, essays and poems made her one of the most widely read writers in Canadian literary history. Publishing under the name L. M. Montgomery, she achieved international recognition with the novel Anne of Green Gables, released in 1908, which quickly became a bestseller and introduced readers to the imaginative orphan Anne Shirley. The success of the book transformed Montgomery from a schoolteacher and magazine contributor into a celebrated literary figure whose work reached audiences far beyond Canada. Raised on Prince Edward Island, she drew deeply on its landscapes, rural communities, and storytelling traditions, turning the island into the setting for many of her novels. The popularity of Anne of Green Gables led to numerous sequels, including Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island, establishing a beloved series that followed Anne from childhood to adulthood. Montgomery continued to write steadily throughout her life, producing twenty novels and more than a thousand short stories poems and essays. Her fiction often centered on young women, personal growth, and the emotional ties between people and place, combining gentle humor with reflections on memory, imagination, and belonging. Although she enjoyed enormous popularity, Montgomery also faced personal difficulties, including long periods of depression and the strain of caring for her husband, a Presbyterian minister who struggled with mental illness. Writing became both a profession and a refuge, allowing her to transform memories of childhood and observation of everyday life into vivid storytelling. In addition to the Anne series, she created other notable works, including the Emily novels and several stand alone stories that explored identity, creativity, and attachment to home. Her books were translated widely and attracted devoted readers around the world, helping shape the international image of Prince Edward Island as a place of pastoral beauty and warm community life. Scholars later studied her extensive journals letters and manuscripts, which revealed the complex inner life behind the cheerful tone of many of her books. By the time of her death in 1942, Montgomery had become one of the most successful and influential authors in Canadian literature. Her stories about imagination, resilience, and the search for belonging continue to inspire readers of all ages, and Anne Shirley remains one of the most recognizable characters in children's fiction. Through generations of readers, Montgomery's work has encouraged appreciation for storytelling, nature, and the emotional richness of ordinary life. Her legacy also includes a vast body of diaries and correspondence that document the challenges faced by a professional woman writer in the early twentieth century. Institutions such as the L. M. Montgomery Institute have continued to examine her influence on literature culture and tourism, particularly on Prince Edward Island, where sites associated with her fiction attract visitors from many countries. Adaptations of Anne of Green Gables for film, television, and theatre have introduced new audiences to her stories, ensuring that her characters remain part of global popular culture. Though critical opinion once dismissed her as merely a writer for children, later scholarship recognized the depth of her themes and the enduring craft of her storytelling. Today she is remembered as a central figure in Canadian literature whose imaginative vision gave voice to the beauty of rural life while celebrating the hopes of young dreamers who search for belonging.

Reviews

[Manybooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

This mega Kindle edition (by Delphi Classics) of the for the most part complete works of Lucy Maud Montgomery has honestly been (and continues to be) a pure and sweetly lovely personal reading pleasure. Containing not only ALL of Montgomery's novels in their entirety (from the Anne of Green Gables series to Jane of Lantern Hill), Complete Works of L.M. Montgomery also includes MOST of L.M. Montgomery's short stories as well as her poetry in sequential order (and as an added bonus, some of L.M. Montgomery's non fiction work, such as Courageous Women and her autobiography The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career). At over 6000 pages and priced at less than $3.00 Canadian on Amazon.ca, Complete Works of L.M. Montgomery is both a totally affordable superb deal and indeed and definitely also the absolutely most complete compilation of L.M. Montgomery's works I have found to date (and although it is a trifle annoying that the abridged The Road to Yesterday is included instead of The Blythes Are Quoted, for me, this is really just a very minor and trifling issue, and I for one absolutely do both love and massively appreciate especially this particular compilation, as it certainly makes reading and rereading my favourite L.M. Montgomery novels, short stories and the like so much easier and more pleasurable, as I can indeed now read them anywhere and on the go, without having to lug my often rather fragile hard cover L.M. Montgomery books around). Highly recommended, but yes, Complete Works of L.M. Montgomery is an e-book and thus, if one does not enjoy e-books, this version, while perhaps handy, might also not be one's cup of proverbial tea!

[Lindy Bell · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I was a child in the 1960s I was rummaging through my mother's box of childhood books, looking for something to read. I had read "Black Beauty" so many times I could recite passages of it and I needed something new to read. My mother suggested I start reading her L.M. Montgomery books.

From the first page I was enthralled. I have read everything she has written, and she was a prolific writer. Some of her short stories were obviously used in her books and there is some repetition, but the first few times I read my mother's copies of the books I wasn't aware of the short stories. By today's standards some of the storylines are a bit romantic; but the comedy is ageless. I can still laugh out loud at some of the stories; especially a plot in "Emily Climbs" when Emily is interviewing a famous writer and a dog creates havoc in the room - a dog which eventually is revealed to belong to nobody in the room.

I tried to introduce my own daughter in Montgomery's books but she is not interested. I think these books are great for someone interested in life over 100 years ago as the day to day events reveal a way of life completely different. They are delightful.

[Nicole Mack · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've never had a favorite author until now; but with each of her stories I have found that Lucy Maud Montgomery is my treasured kindred spirit.

[Jess | thegreeneyedreader · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read about 4 or 5 of the Anne of Green Gables series in high school many years ago and I enjoyed them.