The Blue Castle: a novel

Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine, unmarried, and invisible — a dutiful nobody in a family that measures her worth in obedience. Then a letter arrives from a doctor with a devastating verdict, and Valancy makes a decision that scandalizes the town of Deerwood: she will finally live as if her days are her own. What follows is one of the most joyful reinventions in classic fiction — a leap into the Canadian wilderness, an unlikely romance with the mysterious Barney Snaith, and a secret that changes everything. This edition presents the complete, unabridged original text of L. M. Montgomery's 1926 masterpiece, her only novel set beyond Prince Edward Island. A new introduction and reader's notes illuminate the book's autobiographical roots, its wit, and its quietly bold ideas about women's independence. Beloved by generations and rediscovered anew, The Blue Castle is Montgomery at her warmest and wisest. Part of The Founding Texts Library.