The cozy classic a new generation is rediscovering - from the author of Anne of Green Gables.
At twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling has never been loved, never been free, and never once spent a night away from the joyless house where her clan of aunts and uncles rules her life. Her only escape is a castle she has built inside her own mind. Then a single letter changes everything, and Valancy does the one thing no one who knows her could imagine: she begins to live.
First published in 1926, The Blue Castle is L. M. Montgomery's radiant novel for adults - the only book she set entirely away from Prince Edward Island, in the pine-and-water wilderness of Ontario's Muskoka. Witty, tender, and quietly radical, it has become a treasured comfort read passed hand to hand by readers who grew up on Anne and were waiting, without knowing it, for this.
This Annotated Edition includes:
- The complete 1926 novel, all forty-five chapters, freshly typeset
- An original introduction on Montgomery's one great adult novel and its modern revival
- Notes on the Text decoding the real Muskoka places, period references, and fairy-tale allusions
- A Reader's Guide with discussion questions for book clubs and solo readers
- A concise Montgomery timeline
A short life lived fully, Valancy decides, is worth more than a long one spent obeying. Fall in love with the novel Montgomery wrote for herself.