The Road to Yesterday by L.M. Montgomery is the 9th and final book of the Anne of Green Gables series set in early 20th-century Prince Edward Island. A collection of humorous and heart-warming tales about relationships and growing up, featuring many residents who interacted with the Blythes.
Bored twins meet up with a bored millionaire, and together they achieve their dreams. A self-proclaimed expert on raising children is challenged beyond all her expectations when she adopts a boy. A stubborn young woman refuses an arranged match, only to fall for a trick. One man kidnaps a woman to prevent his brother from proposing to her....but ends up enchanted by her himself. A woman returns for a quick visit to a familiar childhood setting and meets up with an old enemy - but can't resist him. The book may be categorized as a children's book in the library, but the writing is splendid, as always delightful reading for an adult who appreciates well crafted prose.

Nie wiem co mają w sobie książki Montgomery, że chce do nich wracać. Może to połączenie naiwnego romatyzmu ze światem starych ludzi. Miłości, które rozkwitają od pierwszego spotkania - już tylko tu można spotkać takie historie. Nie ma niestety historii dotyczących Ani lub Gilberta pojawiają się tylko przelotnie najczęściej w rozmowach. Szkoda liczyłam że dostanę choć jedną historię po latach. Są spojlery dotyczące dzieci Ani więc warto przeczytać najpierw całą serię o Ani.
P.s jedno.opowiadanie jest dosłownie zachętą do starych metod wychowania czyli bicia dzieci ale to były takie czasy
P.s. tytułowe opowiadanie Spełnione marzenie jest najbardziej zabawne

3.5 stars
Such a cute little short story collection! As always, this collection had a mixture of stories that I felt a range of emotions about. Some of them were entertaining and highly enjoyable, others I just didn't click with that much. I appreciated the inclusion of the Blythe gang in all these stories, but sometimes it seemed gratuitous and like Montgomery barely even mentioned them and only did so to claim she had written more about her old characters. Some of my favorite stories in this collection were "The Twins Pretend" "Fool's Errand" and "The Cheated Child". My least favorite was "Here Comes the Bride".

مجموعه داستانهایی از اهالی جزیره پرنس ادوارد که لابه لای ماجراهاشون اشاره هایی به آنی و گیلبرت هم میشه. در مقایسه با مجموعه داستان ماجراهای اونلی، جاده ای به گذشته رو خیلی بیشتر دوست داشتم. داستان ها طولانی تر بودن و فرصت همذات پنداری با شخصیت ها رو داشتم و میتونستم بیشتر از خوندنشون لذت ببرم.
هرچند کلا داستان کوتاه های مونتگمری رو کمتر از داستان های بلندش می پسندم. ولی همچنان مطالعه ی این کتاب بسیار لذت بخش بود

*

A nice light read after the seriousness of the last book. I did start to get bored and predict all the romances after the first four stories though. The story that was the namesake for the book itself, The Road to Yesterday, was pretty weird. Susette fell in love with “Dick” in literally a day and wasn’t even mad when he revealed he wasn’t Dick. Otherwise I liked most of these even if they weren’t spectacular.

These are sweet little stories. Lots of romance which is always fun. The last chapter really threw me. It was a lot more risqué than I would have expected from Louisa Maud. I didn't realize each story stood alone. So that threw me at first. But, it was still a sweet book.

Chwilami aż przechodziły ciarki!
To zupełnie inna Ania, inne spojrzenie na wiele spraw, a mimo wszystko nadal utrzymane w znajomym tonie.
Każde z tych osobnych opowiadań miało coś w sobie, zachwycało, jedne niekiedy budziły strach, inne rozczulały i dawały nadzieję.
A wiersze Ani i Waltera były wisienką na torcie.

As an older teenager (in 1985), when I first had the opportunity to read L.M. Montgomery’s short story collection The Road to Yesterday (which was published in 1974 and thus over thirty years after her, after Montgomery’s death), albeit that I did in fact and generally enjoy the diverse stories presented (and in particular the sweet message of An Afternoon with Mr. Jenkins and the delightful creepiness of Fools’ Errand) I also do have to admit that the constant matchmaking attempts by Anne Shirley and the never-ceasing instances of gossiping by almost everyone but in particular by Anne and Gilbert Blythe’s horribly annoying and nastily opinionated housekeeper Susan Baker really did manage to consistently distract me and to certainly rather lower my potential for reading joy (and that yes indeed, some of the featured tales of The Road to Yesterday also did tend to feel quite incomplete and often majorly choppy to my teenaged self and as such very much different and not really en par with what I was used to text-wise from L.M. Montgomery’s pen).

But yes, there obviously is a very good and also a very problematic and frustrating reason for in particular the above mentioned feeling of narrational incompleteness with regard to The Road to Yesterday. For in 2009, it was discovered that The Road to Yesterday is in fact a highly abridged and shortened version of L.M. Montgomery’s very last Anne of Green Gables novel, of The Blythes are Quoted (which was supposedly sent as a manuscript to the publisher on the day of L.M. Montgomery’s death but was then never published in its entirety) and that indeed The Road to Yesterday is therefore but a very very pale reflection of The Blythes are Quoted, consisting of massively abridged tales, with none of the poetry sections included and with the in my opinion best story of The Blyhes are Quoted, with Some Fools and a Saint also having been left out for some silly and personally incomprehensible reason. And while as a teenager (and of course like basically everyone being unaware that The Road to Yesterday is an abridgement) I would most likely have rated The Road to Yesterday with a solid and high three stars (my issues with Anne Shirley as matchmaker and Susan Baker as ridiculous and very unlikeable gossip notwithstanding), after reading The Blythes are Quoted and realising just how much is missing from the text of The Road to Yesterday, just how much has been removed and altered (and therefore, also how much more superior narrative wise The Blythes are Quoted truly is in absolutely every way), I can and will now only rate The Road to Yesterday with but two stars and to ONLY recommend it to readers who are in fact somehow unable to obtain The Blythes are Quoted.

Montgomery really can do no wrong in my eyes. These stories are her typical fair with perhaps a bit more scandal than in the Anne books. Four or five of the stories were absolutely beautiful. Plus, she gives little glimpses into the lives of Anne and her family beyond the eighth novel - worth reading if only to find out what happened after the Great War!

The Anne of Green Gables series is an absolute delight. I've been rereading them lately and they're even better than I remembered.

Wholesome, virtuous, and laugh out loud hilarious, I'm happy these books exist to inspire and move.

This was far from my favorite by this author.
I love Anne and her family as much as anybody else (and quite possibly more than most), but it was irritating to have everybody in every story hold each member of the Blythe family up as embodying the epitome of man- or woman- or childhood, as the case may be.
There were a few endearing glimpses, but overall it came across as weird that these people were spending so much time thinking about and quoting the Blythes.
I did enjoy some of these stories, and I’m glad I read the book, but it won’t be like many others by this author, a beloved favorite that is reread over and over.
Possibly the best part was the few glimpses we are given of the grownup Blythe children. Kenneth and Rilla, for example, have a son named Gilbert who is an aviator in WWII, and either Jem or Shirley named a son Walter. I loved those hints at their futures beyond the Anne books.