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The Road to Yesterday

posted 14 years ago by MllePontmercy
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Has anyone here read The Road to Yesterday?

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I have. It's a series of short stories told by and about other people living in Glen St. Mary. It was set and written after WWI and Anne and Gilbert and family are only really mentioned in passing. The most interesting part of them being mentioned is that we hear stuff about them from people who don't know them so some of what's said is clearly gossip that may or may not have any truth to it, wagging tongues and all that.

The stories are interesting ones. They're a little darker than in some of her other books. Issues of single motherhood, infidelity, regrets of love lost and the wearing of pyjamas (gasp!)rather than nightshirts come up in the book.

I enjoyed it but if you're looking for a book full of familiar characters or sweet young imaginative children, this isn't that.

[–] MsELLERYqueen2 13 years ago

Yup! I've read all the Lucy Maud Montgomery novels and short stories. :)
I love all her short stories. My favorite novels of hers are "A Tangled Web" and "The Blue Castle", as well as the Emily trilogy. :)

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[–] MsELLERYqueen2 12 years ago

"The Blythes are Quoted" contains all the stories from "The Road to Yesterday", plus "Some Fools and a Saint" & the poems. I wasn't interested in the poems, but I did want to read the version of "Some Fools and a Saint" which has Anne and Gilbert in it. The version found in the short story collection "Among the Shadows" doesn't have them in it. I don't know which version Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote first. I love that story!

By the way, what did you think of the story "Some Fools and a Saint"? It's one of my favorite short stories ever, and personally, I think that the family members got what they deserved. I first read this story when I was a young teen. I didn't figure out the ending back then. If I had read it as an adult, I probably would have figured out who was the culprit. At any rate, when the culprit's motive was revealed, I began to think that the family got what they deserved. My opinion hasn't changed.

As for all the short stories in "The Blythes are Quoted", I don't think that Montgomery wanted them to be only about the Blythes. I think she wanted to write stories about their neighbors. Similarily, "Chronicles of Avonlea" and "Further Chronicles of Avonlea" are not about Anne, Marilla, and Matthew, but about their neighbors. I love those stories as well. :)

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