After Many Years: Twenty-one "Long-Lost" Stories

by L. M. Montgomery, Carolyn Strom Collins (Editor), Christy Woster (Editor)

Overview

This volume collects 21 long-lost stories by the author of Anne of Green Gables written across 40 years—with a forward by the author’s granddaughter.
 
Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and short stories. After Many Years brings together rare pieces originally published between 1900 and 1939 that haven’t been in print since their initial periodicals. 
 
Editors Carolyn Storm Collins and Christy Woster curated this collection of newly discovered stories full of the charm, humor and warmth that make Montgomery’s novels such beloved classics. With scholarly prefaces and notes for each piece, the book offers readers a rare glimpse into how Montgomery’s writing developed over the course of her career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771084321
Publisher:	Nimbus Publishing
Publication date:	10/29/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lucy Maud (L. M.) Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian author best known for her popular Anne of Green Gables series, the first book of which was originally published in 1908. The PEI-born author studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and went on to publish twenty novels and hundreds of short stories and poems. Montgomery's work has inspired movies, television shows, musicals, plays, and continues to draw countless visitors to Prince Edward Island each year.Carolyn Strom Collins is the author of The Anne of Green Gables Treasury and other "Anne" companion books; she has also published companion books on Little Women and The Secret Garden. Carolyn helped found The Friends of the L. M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI as well as the L. M. Montgomery Literary Society.Christy Woster collected L. M. Montgomery materials for fifty years until her death in 2016. In addition to co-editing this volume of stories, many of which she discovered, Christy also provided hundreds of new citations to the updated Annotated Bibliography of L. M. Montgomery's Stories and Poems. She was a charter board member of The Friends of the L. M. Montgomery Institute and the L. M. Montgomery Literary Society.
L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) published her first short story at age fifteen. Her debut novel, Anne of Green Gables, was an immediate success and allowed Montgomery to leave her career as a schoolteacher and devote herself to writing. She went on to publish seven sequels starring Anne Shirley and numerous other novels, short stories, and essays.