Chronicles of Avonlea Chronicles of Avonlea Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L. M. Montgomery, related to the "Anne of Green Gables" series. It features an abundance of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912. Sometimes marketed as a book in the Anne Shirley series, Anne plays only a minor role in the book: out of the 12 stories in the collection, she stars in only one ("The Hurrying of Ludovic"), and has a small supporting role in another ("The Courting of Prissy Strong"). She is otherwise only briefly mentioned in
Anne Shirley to "Anne Montgomery". The book was extremely popular in Poland and during the Second World War, the "Armia Krajowa" (AK) resistance group issued editions of the book to remind its members what they were fighting for. Even through there is nothing about Poland in the "Anne" books, the AK still saw her as a symbol of the humanist values that they were defending. For a time, "Anne of Green Gables" was banned in Communist Poland, and the book circulated in samizdat editions as Anne was seen as a symbol of individualism and an unwillingness to submit to authority, making her