Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
The Alpine Path
The Story of My Career
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Initial publish date
- Jul 1997
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Women, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550412949
- Publish Date
- Jul 1997
- List Price
- $8.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554556755
- Publish Date
- Feb 2025
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
Lucy Maud Montgomery, the creator of Anne of Green Gables and many other popular children's stories penned this memoir during World War I and it is often considered the best account of her childhood on Prince Edward Island and her first years as a writer.
The Alpine Path references her long and difficult journey to become a full-fledged writer and describes, in charming detail, her childhood in rural Prince Edward Island during the closing years of the 1800s. Maud writes movingly about her family, friends, and the island way of life and through this memoir we learn how these special people and places became the inspiration for many scenes and incidents in her later novels.
Despite the rejection of her Anne of Green Gables manuscript by many publishers, L. M. Montgomery refused to be discouraged from her goal of becoming an accomplished writer. Yet her remarkable success and fame from the instant popularity of Anne of Green Gables did not come without a price. Eeveryone who has enjoyed the Anne stories will be fascinated by this enchanting memoir first published in 1917.
About the author
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, in 1874. After the death of her mother in 1876, Montgomery was raised by her maternal grandparents in the nearby community of Cavendish. She received a teaching certificate in 1894, and studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1895. After a brief career as a teacher at various island schools, she moved back to Cavendish in 1898. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan Macdonald and moved to Leaskdale, Ontario, where Macdonald was minister in the Presbyterian Church. A prolific writer, she published a number of short stories, poems, and novels, but is best known for Anne of Green Gables and its sequels: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla Of Ingleside. Montgomery died in Toronto in 1942 and was buried in her beloved Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
Other titles by
Anne of Green Gables
Finales y comienzos/ Anne of Ingleside
Adiós, Isla del Príncipe / Anne's House of Dreams
Más aventuras en Avonlea / Anne of Avonlea
La maestra de Avonlea / Anne of Avonlea
Una amistad para siempre / A Forever Friendship
La llegada / Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island (Vol3)
