The Short Stories from 1902-1903

By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince
Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved
international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and
Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green
Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and
poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty
novels before her death in 1942.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Release date: Dec 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781625585431

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian author and writer of 20 novels, 30 essays, 500 poems and 530 short stories. She is best known for the Anne of Green Gables series of children’s books. Most of her fictional works are set in Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island. In 1935, Montgomery was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Reviews for The Short Stories from 1902-1903

[merechristian · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I stated in my review of L. M. Montgomery's short story collection published in the years 1902-1903, that the work suffered from two much commonality with all of her other stories. The stories came across as cliched, and boring. To some extent, this was unfair of me, as the various story ideas were used in these stories for the first time, so these are, in fact, the original stories, while the Anne stories and others are the later “copies” in terms of plot. That said, without the full development that the adventures of Anne Shirley give us, the stories really were not as much fun, due to their shortness. However, I can say that the stories in this collection really are better. Montgomery's considerable skill is obvious from any who have read her works. The only real difference between the stories she wrote in the year 1904, and those she wrote in the previous eight years, is in terms of originality of the tales. She actually introduced some new concepts, which was something she seemed unable to do beforehand. The stories were not almost carbon copies of each other, as many of the previous stories were. That said, there is still something to be criticized, and that is that some of her characters could be more than a tad shallow. The characters were mostly quite attractive among the younger ones, and those who were not attractive were not paired with the attractive ones. This reminded me of how eternally attractive Anne and Gilbert are in the Anne books, and how Anne and Gilbert made fun of an unkind woman behind her back, due to her weight. The worst part is that Montgomery was not portraying the characters here in this short story collection, or Anne and Gilbert in their stories, as wrong, but as correct in their behavior. With the exception of Anne's college chum, Phil, marrying a not-so-handsome minister, this is an unfortunate stream of shallowness running through her works. Even the character of Diana from Anne's girlhood, while portrayed nicely despite being overweight, is portrayed as infinitely out of Anne's league.Such issues are why I can not give unreserved approval to this short story collection, though I certainly do Highly Recommend it.