I like her short stories. They vary in quality, and don't all have happy endings, and these stories all related to the ocean. I enjoyed "The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse" published in 1909 that told of an old sailor whose wonderful stories were published for the world to read. I also liked "Four Winds" which was the longest and had more character development. It was about a young minister who falls in love with a relusive girl with a mystery and then ends with a twist. I don't read short stories all that often so this challenge has been fun to find these nuggets.

Un recueil de nouvelles antérieures à Anne et qui n'ont donc pas sa finesse. Beaucoup de romances (un peu datées pour le lectorat d'aujourd'hui) mais toujours cette tendresse pour ses personnages, la beauté de la nature, la poésie des mots.
L'ouvrage est aussi traversé d'images fortes et de piques d'humour surprenantes.

A much more meloncholy book than most of her's, with a fantastical element.

This book is a collection of short stories and is really very sweet. If you've read the Anne series then you will be able to recognize LM's style pretty quickly, but that doesn't make it any less fun to read.

While I do love L.M. Montgomery’s writing style, I do have a hard time getting into short stories. Some of the stories left me begging for more; some I was glad to come to the end.

Lovely diversion for short chunks of time.

One of L.M. Montgomery's short story collections, taken from stories published in various magazines. The stories run the gamut from playful to heart-wrenching to haunting--mirroring the moods of the sea, perhaps.

Quite a few involve romance, unrequited or otherwise: "Fair Exchange and No Robbery" was a bit predictable, but fun. "A Sandshore Wooing" was likewise light-hearted, while "A Strayed Allegience," and "Mackereling Out in the Gulf" had more serious undertones. "The Waking of Helen" was tragic.

This one also includes a few that she later rewrote for her novels, but it was interesting to see them in their original form. "The Lifebook of Uncle Jesse" was hardly changed at all when she later used it in Anne's House of Dreams; and Paul Irving with his rock people show up in another, though the short story version has a different ending and flavor to it than the Anne version.

Montgomery's love for the sea shines through all of these stories. Perhaps "The Magical Bond of the Sea," about the shore girl who has a deeper connection to the shore than even she realizes was somewhat autobiographical.

In any case, this is one I enjoyed. Some of our most fun family vacations have been to the coast. This made me want to go back!

Reread Aug-Sept 2019. I still really enjoyed all these stories. The only negative, for me, is in the different social mores of the time when Montgomery was writing: the last story, which is largely delightful, ends on a really sour note of casual racism when the n-word is used for a joke in the last paragraph. You can tell that, for Montgomery, this word doesn't carry the heavy meaning it does today and this would have been light and funny, in keeping with the tone of the rest of the story - but to a modern reader it really stands out. I think this collection was probably compiled quite a while ago; if the editors were to do an updated edition, this is something that should be addressed, since many young people pick up Montgomery thanks to the Anne books. Overall the entire rest of the collection is lovely, but this paragraph as the last one in the book ends up getting a lot of emotional resonance.

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A collection of short stories, all with an ocean theme, by the author of Anne of Green Gables. I really love Montgomery's work so I was delighted to find a book of hers I hadn't read yet.

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I adore Lucy Maud Montgomery's writing and as soon as I saw that she published a sea-themed story collection, I knew I had to read it. I waited until I can travel to the seaside and read it in the right scenery, and I definitely wasn't disappointed.

As with all collections of stories, I liked some more and some less. The very first several stories were probably my favourite, and I liked how the sea was more prominent in there. I felt like the second half of the collection wasn't that much connected to the sea, so I was very slightly disappointed, but all stories were still interesting and worth reading.

I promised myself that I will first read through all of Anne books before I pick another book by L.M. Montgomery, but because I had a chance to go on holiday, I just had to read Along the Shore, and I can safely recommend it :) It's a great addition to my collection and I will definitely re-read it in the future.

Good, but the last story is the same story that included the racial slur in A Tangled Web. Totally disappointing.

a lot of great stories in this collection, a pretty shocking ending to a hilarious 1930s story at the close of the book

Old fashioned

I'm not much of a short story person...I'm not sure why. I did, however, enjoy many of the stories in this collection. From reading some of the other reviews here, I have to agree that fans of L.M. Montgomery will either love this book because it's more Montgomery, or they will be unsatisfied with the recycling of some of her characters/plots.