More newly completed books...

I know I've already posted concerning two of the other L.M. Montgomery books but... I just get started on a series or author and keep reading their writings. So, I've just finished Anne of the Island as well as Anne of Windy Poplars.

I finally solved a small mystery I had. Around the same time I read Anne of Windy Poplars for the first time I also read Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. Very connected stories don't you think? In the fourth book in the series Anne visits one Miss Minerva Tomgallon who lives in a house her family has held for some six generations. There were a great many tragic deaths in the family which she pronounced to be on account of a curse on her family. I specifically remember the part where she mentions here grandfather (or great-grandfather, I'm not positive). He had fallen down some stairs and broken his neck on some festive occasion.

I pictured the Tomgallon mansion to be virtually identical to The House of Usher and thus confused the two stories as well. When I read The Fall of the House of Usher again I expected to hear of the old gentleman who had tumbled down the stairs and any number of other unfortunates who suffered like tragedies. However I didn't read anything of them. I couldn't figure it out. There was of course the rather demented Roderick Usher and his sister who was pronounced dead quite too soon.

When I began the chapter in which Anne visits Miss Minerva Tomgallon I soon realized that I'd finally figured out my small mystery. The Tomgallons were similar to the Ushers but belonged to L.M. Montgomery not Edgar Allan Poe.

For some reason Project Gutenberg doesn't have Anne of Windy Poplars available in the same format as the other books. It's there but all on one page instead of in chapters. Pretty inconvenient when your looking for one particular section. They do have Anne of the Island in chapter format.

Anne of the Island

Anne of Windy Poplars