num_pages: 527
description: The Blythes Are Quoted is the last work of fiction by the internationally celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables. Intended by L.M. Montgomery to be the ninth volume in her bestselling series featuring her beloved heroine Anne  and delivered to her publisher on the very day she died  it has never before been published in its entirety. This rediscovered volume marks the final word of a writer whose work continues to fascinate readers all over the world.Adultery illegitimacy revenge murder and death  these are not the first terms we associate with L.M. Montgomery. But in The Blythes Are Quoted completed at the end of her lifethe author brings topics such as these to the fore.Intended by Montgomery to be the ninth volume in her bestselling series featuring Anne Shirley Blythe The Blythes Are Quoted takes Anne and her family a full two decades beyond anything else she published about them and some of its subject matter is darker than we might expect.Divided into two sections one set before and one after the Great War of 19141918 it contains fifteen short stories set in and around the Blythes Prince Edward Island community of Glen St. Mary. Binding these stories are sketches featuring Anne and Gilbert Blythe discussing poems by Anne and their middle son Walter who dies as a soldier in the war. By blending together poetry prose and dialogue in this way Montgomery was at the end of her career experimenting with storytelling methods in an entirely new manner.This publication of Montgomery's rediscovered original work  previously published only in severely abridged form as The Road to Yesterday  invites readers to return to her earlier books with a renewed appreciation and perspective.
language: English
title: The Blythes Are Quoted
publisher: Viking Canada