The Blue Castle

Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine, unmarried, and has never in her life said a true thing out loud to her family. Then a letter from a doctor tells her she has a year. What follows is the funniest thing Montgomery ever wrote and the least like Anne of Green Gables: a woman working through a lifetime of swallowed remarks, one relative at a time, then walking out of the house entirely. You choose what she finally says.

Chapters

1. The Blue CastleElm Street Bedroom
2. The Birthday DownstairsElm Street Dining Room
3. The Afternoon ErrandElm Street and Deerwood
4. A Visit Outside the FamilyDr Trent's Office
5. The Walk Home through Lover's LaneElm Street Sitting Room
6. The Answer Still UnwrittenElm Street Lawn and Post Office
7. The Montreal LetterElm Street Bedroom and Dining Room
8. The Year No One Else KnewElm Street Bedroom and Morning Room
9. The Walk to Maple AvenueMaple Avenue
10. Twenty-Five Years at TableUncle Herbert's Dining Room
11. What Rumour Cannot ProveUncle Herbert's Dining Room
12. One Little Dust-PileElm Street Bedroom and Morning Room
13. The Closed Drawer UpstairsElm Street Porch
14. The Departure from Elm StreetElm Street Hall
15. Someone Has ComeRoaring Abel's House
16. Work That Wants DoingRoaring Abel's House and Barrens
17. A Visitor from MistawisRoaring Abel's Garden
18. The Candy on the TableRoaring Abel's Kitchen
19. The Rector at Abel's HouseRoaring Abel's Kitchen
20. Thirty Dollars Each MonthDeerwood Shops and Roaring Abel's House
21. The Dance beyond the Last RiseChidley Corners Hall and Pine Road
22. The Stopped Motor on Muskoka RoadMuskoka Road
23. The Road Resumes toward Abel'sAbel House and Port Lawrence
24. After the Port Lawrence PictureCissy's Bedroom
25. The Open Window after Cissy's StoryCissy's Bedroom and Abel's Yard
26. The First Funeral NoticesAbel House and Deerwood Cemetery
27. The News Reserved for AbelAbel's Garden
28. License, Ring, and IslandPort Lawrence and Mistawis
29. Home Reached across MistawisDeerwood Road
30. The Ring at Elm StreetElm Street Sitting Room
31. A Marriage Deerwood Would Not BlessDeerwood Store and Mistawis Island
32. The Island HouseholdMistawis Island
33. The Road without a NameMuskoka Woods and Mistawis
34. Firelight Through the CalendarMistawis Island
35. After the Pearl-Bead ChristmasMistawis Island and Winter Woods
36. The Thaw on MistawisMistawis Woods and Island
37. The Letter Still in the SatchelPort Lawrence Road and Mistawis
38. A Night without an AnswerDr Trent's Office
39. After the Sentence Was LiftedMistawis Mainland and Island
40. A Father Who Had Waited Eleven YearsBlue Castle Verandah
41. The Island after Dr Redfern LeftBlue Castle and Elm Street
42. Queen Louise Waits UpstairsElm Street Bedroom and Parlour
43. The Barnyard Day RememberedElm Street Parlour
44. What Mistawis ChangedElm Street Parlour
45. The First Proposal SettledElm Street Letter and Mistawis Mainland

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