Kilmeny of the Orchard E-Book

L.M. Montgomery

• Herausgeber: L. M. Montgomery
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks. She was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.

Leseprobe

KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD

L. M. Montgomery

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE THOUGHTS OF YOUTH

CHAPTER II. A LETTER OF DESTINY

CHAPTER III. THE MASTER OF LINDSAY SCHOOL

CHAPTER IV. A TEA TABLE CONVERSATION

CHAPTER V. A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT

CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF KILMENY

CHAPTER VII. A ROSE OF WOMANHOOD

CHAPTER VIII. AT THE GATE OF EDEN

CHAPTER IX. THE STRAIGHT SIMPLICITY OF EVE

CHAPTER X. A TROUBLING OF THE WATERS

CHAPTER XI. A LOVER AND HIS LASS

CHAPTER XII. A PRISONER OF LOVE

CHAPTER XIII. A SWEETER WOMAN NE'ER DREW BREATH

CHAPTER XIV. IN HER SELFLESS MOOD

CHAPTER XV. AN OLD, UNHAPPY, FAR-OFF THING

CHAPTER XVI. DAVID BAKER'S OPINION

CHAPTER XVII. A BROKEN FETTER

CHAPTER XVIII. NEIL GORDON SOLVES HIS OWN PROBLEM

CHAPTER XIX. VICTOR FROM VANQUISHED ISSUES

CHAPTER I. THE THOUGHTS OF YOUTH

The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College and the grounds about them, throwing through the bare, budding maples and elms, delicate, evasive etchings of gold and brown on the paths, and coaxing into life the daffodils that were peering greenly and perkily up under the windows of the co-eds' dressing-room.

A young April wind, as fresh and sweet as if it had been blowing over the fields of memory instead of through dingy streets, was purring in the tree-tops and whipping the loose tendrils of the ivy network which covered the front of the main building. It was a wind that sang of many things, but what it sang to each listener was only what was in that listener's heart. To the college students who had just been capped and diplomad by "Old Charlie," the grave president of Queenslea, in the presence of an admiring throng of parents and sisters, sweethearts and friends, it sang, perchance, of glad hope and shining success and high achievement. It sang of the dreams of youth that may never be quite fulfilled, but are well worth the dreaming for all that. God help the man who has never known such dreams—who, as he leaves his alma mater, is not already rich in aerial castles, the proprietor of many a spacious estate in Spain. He has missed his birthright.