Audiobook · read by volunteers
Golden Road
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942)
Read by JemmaBlythe, Kirsten Ferreri, rachelellen, Karen Savage, Heather Barnett, Heather Lambert, Mary Anderson, Betsie Bush, Deb Bacon-Ziegler, Ophelia Darcy · 34 chapters · 7 h 40
About the book
Sara Stanley returns to Carlisle, and the King children could not be happier. In The Golden Road, the sequel to The Story Girl, the young people decide to publish their own little magazine, Our Magazine, to entertain the whole community. Their summers are full of tales, mischief, imaginary adventures, family quarrels and the small tragedies and comedies of growing up on Prince Edward Island. L. M. Montgomery, creator of Anne of Green Gables, writes with humour and warmth, and her feeling for the beauty of the countryside is as strong as ever. JemmaBlythe, Kirsten Ferreri, rachelellen and seven other LibriVox volunteers read the thirty-four chapters in just under eight hours. Light-hearted, nostalgic and full of village mischief, this is a perfect book for long summer evenings.
Introduction
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author, born on Prince Edward Island, who became famous with Anne of Green Gables in 1908. She went on to write many novels and stories, and the island setting, with its farms, orchards and shoreline, appears again and again in her work.
The Golden Road, published in 1913, is the sequel to The Story Girl, which came out in 1911. Both books are told by one of the King children, looking back on a happy time, and both are built around the character of Sara Stanley, a gifted storyteller. They have a nostalgic tone and a series of loosely connected episodes rather than a single driving plot. Montgomery's humour, her sharp observation of children and her gift for atmosphere are evident throughout. Readers who loved Anne will recognise the same sensibility.
This recording has thirty-four chapters, beginning with the dedication and foreword, and lasts about seven hours and forty minutes. It is read by a team of LibriVox volunteers, among them JemmaBlythe, Kirsten Ferreri and rachelellen. It is gentle, funny and sometimes moving, a pleasure for fans of Montgomery and a good introduction for those who want something beyond Anne. It also gives a charming picture of rural Canadian life at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of children. Children and adults will both enjoy the humour and the small dramas that fill each chapter.
Public domain
Lucy Maud Montgomery died in 1942: the work is in the public domain in Switzerland, more than 70 years after the author’s death.
The LibriVox volunteers dedicated this recording to the public domain.
Sources : LibriVox page · Files at the Internet Archive · Original text