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Author of “Anne of Green Gables,” “Anne of Avonlea,” “Chronicles of Avonlea,” etc.

Cloth, decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75 With an appreciation and introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Further stories of the people of Avonlea, the home of the beloved Anne Shirley of Green Gables, whom Mark Twain called the “dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice.” Anne herself “once or twice flashes across the scene” and her friends of Prince Edward Island are a most engaging group of people of whom the author writes with all the charm which has made her books unrivaled in their field.

In his introduction to this volume, Nathan Haskell Dole, author among other numerous books of THE SPELL OF SWITZERLAND and editor of several scholarly editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar, compares Avonlea to Longfellow’s Grand Pre, and says, “There is something in these continued chronicles of Avonlea like the delicate art which has made Cranford a classic.”

“The author shows a wonderful knowledge of humanity, great insight and warmheartedness in the manner in which the stories are treated, and in the sympathetic way the gentle peculiarities of the characters are brought out.”—Baltimore Sun.