The Golden Road [Hardcover]

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2003

When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to  Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she  comes up with a great idea. To help them through  the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily,  and Dan will publish a magazine. From  "Personals" to "Fashion Notes" to an  etiquette column and stories of the most interesting  happenings in Carlisle, Our Magazine quickly becomes  the most entertaining publication anyone in town  has ever read. But seasons pass, nothing is forever  -- and soon it will be time for the Story Girl to  leave her good friends on Prince Edward Island,  friends with whom she has walked the golden road of  youth.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

''Lush, evocative, . . . timeless . . . Conlin sustains the idyllic, gossipy quality of Montgomery's story . . . She projects the sentimental aura of the turn of the century.'' --AudioFile --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

From the Publisher

When Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to Carlisle to spend the winter with the King family, she comes up with a great idea. To help them through the dreary months ahead, she, Felicity, Cecily, and Dan will publish a magazine. From "Personals" to "Fashion Notes" to an etiquette column and stories of the most interesting happenings in Carlisle, Our Magazine quickly becomes the most entertaining publication anyone in town has ever read. But seasons pass, nothing is forever -- and soon it will be time for the Story Girl to leave her good friends on Prince Edward Island, friends with whom she has walked the golden road of youth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 236 pages
• Publisher: IndyPublish.com (May 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1404364056
• ISBN-13: 978-1404364059
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,574,558 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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you liked Anne of Green Gables, read this book, December 4, 2010

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Jamba - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Golden Road (Kindle Edition)

This book has the same charm and story telling as Anne of Green Gables. It concentrates on a family on P.E. Island and the various adventures of the young band of cousins growing up together. If you recall the old Disney Channel show "Avonlea", this book is where most of the main characters originated, with some name changes.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Two books I have read over and over...., January 27, 2001

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Jess (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Golden Road (Paperback)

The Golden Road and its prequel, The Story Girl, are two of the best books I have ever read. I never seem to get tired of them, either...I have read them countless times! If you enjoy L. M. Montgomery's novels, such as the Anne of Green Gables series, these books are a must. The Golden Road tells the story of cousins, Beverley (who narrates the story), Felix, Cecily, Felicity, Dan, and Sara Stanley, also known as the Story Girl, plus their friends Peter, the hired boy, and Sara Ray. The adventures these eight have are sometimes exiting, sometimes sad...but mostly really funny! For instance, one time, they have the governors wife to tea...but they think she's their deaf Aunt Eliza and comment on the governors big nose and such things! And Felicity accidentally bakes tooth-powder rusks...oh, I can't tell you the whole book! Read it for yourself!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars nostalgic, June 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Golden Road (Paperback)

I have read this book many times since I was 13, and I'm 19 now. I think the ending is very sad, the realisation that we all have to grow up, and the hints we are given about the future of the characters we have grown to love. I was near tears reading about cecily, and the ending seemed so final. We can never return to our childhood, but we can remember the good times in reading this book. Whereas the Story Girl, although a fascinating book, is, in reality, little more than a stringing together of many stories, in this book the characters are properly developed.