Chronicles of Avonlea

On Prince Edward Island, where Anne Shirley grew up in the seaside town of Avonlea, there was no shortage of great stories. Louis Speed had a lawsuit, he wouldn't propose to a woman he had sued for fifteen years until Anne came up with a plan to "speed him up"... if he hadn't fired his comeback and broken his heart. But no one could accuse the némitry Anna of the merry battle of the sexes, which erupted when a woman hated by a man and her cat were quarantined in the same house as the hated female bachelor and her dog. From the sprawling Penhallow Grange, where the family almost always waited for two quarrelling lovers to break their stubborn silence, to the overturned old shaw farm waiting for his beloved daughter's retum, L. M. Montgomery wrote twelve stories about hidden hopes and secret dreams filled with magic and humor.

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