Magic for Marigold

by L. M. Montgomery

Overview

Magic for Marigold' is a novel about a young girl named Marigold and her fairytale world. Marigold lives with her family at their home named Cloud of Spruce on Prince Edward Island. She is an imaginative girl who has plenty of adventures and fantasies; many with her eccentric playmate; Sylvia. A book full of beauty and magic; not to be missed by fans of L. M. Montgomery. This early work by Lucy Maud Montgomery was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on 30th November 1874; New London; in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. Her mother; Clara Woolner (Macneil); died before Lucy reached the age of two and so she was raised by her maternal grandparents in a family of wealthy Scottish immigrants. In 1908 Montgomery produced her first full-length novel; titled 'Anne of Green Gables'. It was an instant success; and following it up with several sequels; Montgomery became a regular on the best-seller list and an international household name. Montgomery died in Toronto on 24th April 1942.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473344860
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	09/20/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	310
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

"I love books.  I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her journal when she was just fourteen.  This journal entry, made in 1889, is significant to readers today who know that when she grew up she not only owned and read many books, but also became the world-famous author L. M. Montgomery.  Maud, as she liked to be called by family and friends, wrote twenty-four books between 1908 and 1939.  Her first was Anne of Green Gables, and her other works include seven more Anne books, the Avonlea stories, the Emily trilogy, two novels for adults, an autobiography, and the novel The Story Girl.

Lucy Maud Montgomery was always writing and reading and was quite a story girl herself, creating more than five hundred short stories.  She also wrote many poems.  One edition of her poetry was published during her lifetime and today all her poems have been collected in a single volume.