The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career [Hardcover]

L.M. Montgomery (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited (1917)
• ASIN: B001QRGF7S
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,142,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lucy Maude Montgomery (1874-1942) was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the setting for Anne of Green Gables. She left to attend college, but returned to Prince Edward Island to teach. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan MacDonald. Anne of Green Gables, the first in a series of "Anne" books by Montgomery, was published in 1908 to immediate success and continues to be a perennial favorite.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the must-reads for any LMM fans!, April 6, 2000

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C. N. Seong - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (Paperback)

I have read quite a number of versions of LMM's biographies, and I think this one is one of the best. Although this isn't as rich in content as the LMM Album or the four volumes of LMM's own journals, this book is already able to give the readers the enough information that a LMM fan will want to know about this wonderful story-teller. Besides, I think this book is very suitable for teenagers to read, very suitable for beginners of LMM fans who want to know more about this author of the famous Anne books. A very enjoyable and quick read, but at the same time, very informative.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I would have called it Damourium. I mean....read this! :), April 17, 2001

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Bitsy Pookums (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (Paperback)

One would think, when picking up an autobiography, that it's time to get out the caffeine, or at least a comfortable chair. But Maud's is different - mostly because she makes her life into a story - a story as interesting and as fun as her beloved Anne of Green Gables or Emily of New Moon. The words and stories of her life make the book one that is impossible to put down...who knows what might happen to Maud on the next page. Also, because she wrote it, the reader know what she is thinking, what she was like as a child because there is no one retelling it but herself.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an inspiring story of a dream coming true, June 23, 2004

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I ain't no porn writer (author, "Crippled Dreams") - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career (Paperback)

L.M. Montgomery's life is a life story of conquoring adversity and making one's dream come true. Although taken care of in the material sense as a child, she was not nurtured in the emotional sense and this created a need to escape into a fairyland of her imagination where she was accepted and loved and had friends, including "window friends."

This book is a collection of autobiographical articles written by L.M. Montgomery in 1917 in response to an editor's request for her to write the story of her literary career. Montgomery speaks a lot about her early childhood and her later struggles to make it as a writer, alone, without encouragement, support, or understanding from others. In fact, her literary ambitions and attempts were often scoffed at or criticized. But Maud kept keepin' on, confident that she would "arrive" some day. And she did, in an enormous way.

I highly recommend this book to anyone in need of inspiration or encouragement to make their dream come true, and especially to any aspiring writer whose dream is to climb the alpine path and reach that far-off goal of true and honoured fame.

David Rehak
author of "A Young Girl's Crimes"