The Complete Story Girl Series: The Story Girl + The Golden Road

by L.M. Montgomery

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Story Girl Series: The Story Girl + The Golden Road” contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by L. M. Montgomery. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business.

The sequel to the book is The Golden Road, written in 1913. When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily and Dan will publish a magazine.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 – 1942), was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.

Genres: Young Adult

468 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 15, 2008

About the author

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.

Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911. She had three children and wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Golden Road was one of my favorite books when I was growing up, but I had never read The Story Girl until now, so I had missed a lot. I really enjoyed reading the two books together as there is no lapse in time between them. It was fun to be re-introduced to the delightful cousins and their friends and to be transported back to a time when children and teens had to make their own fun. I loved reading about their adventures and all the stories that the Story Girl told. What a wonderful time and place to be alive! The language was very flowery and descriptive and sometimes was almost too much, but all in all, it was a delightful book.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

Here we have another set of stories regarding the overall life of Prince Edward Island. The Island set as a backdrop for Anne of Green Gables. Here, like Anne of Green Gables we have a set of children lead by Sara Stanley (Story Girl) and their life and experiences on the island. In many parts quite fun and humorous, in other parts sad.

This is a story that moves along very nicely, simple and sweet. However, the setting, backdrop, set up is too closely aligned to Anne of Green Gables, and, as such, will I feel, always be in its shadow.

[Mme Forte · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's L.M. Montgomery and I don't care.

A group of kids spend an idyllic time together in small-town Prince Edward Island, location of many of Montgomery's stories. Set in the late 19th century, the book features lyrical descriptions of nature, hymns to family and friend relationships, and snapshots of daily life at the time. (How far we've come in some ways; how not so in others.)

I found this at the library and picked it up immediately. This was one of L.M.'s works I hadn't heard of and now I feel a little closer to completist.

[Michele Bovasso · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful old-fashioned classic

Enjoyed this treasure! Lucy Maud Montgomery weaves such beautiful tales. Her characters and use of descriptive language cast a delightful spell over me. You grow to know and love these characters as much as in Anne of Green Gables series. The ending had me crying hard! Such beauty!! I'm glad that I read it!!!

[Kenny Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not Anne, nor Emily, nor even Pat

I looked forward to reading this story, mostly because of a few things I have seen attributed to Montgomery about the story line. I was disappointed.

[Indah DS | FewFewww · Rating 3 out of 5]

Terlalu berat buat aku

[Pam McCallister · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[Hannah Gray · Rating 5 out of 5]

The old minister’s words still ring true: “You may be sure that God is infinitely more beautiful and loving and tender and kind than anything else we can imagine of him.” I love this book so much!

[Amy Anguish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute stories, though not as good as Anne, in my opinion.