The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery — eBook (EPUB) | Complete 1926 Text, Twelve Nights Reading Plan, Book Club Companion

What would you do with a year?

Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine, unmarried, and kept — managed, mocked and pitied — in her mother's house in Deerwood, in Ontario's Muskoka country. Her only possession is a daydream: a Blue Castle in Spain. Then a Toronto heart specialist's letter tells her she has perhaps a year to live, and Valancy discovers what a woman with nothing left to lose can say, refuse, and choose.

The Blue Castle (1926) is L. M. Montgomery's beloved standalone novel for adults — the funniest and warmest of her books, and a story of a life that looked finished and was not. It is not an Anne book; it is the novel Montgomery wrote for grown-ups, set in the Muskoka lake country she loved.

This Christmas Gift Edition EPUB contains the complete 1926 first-edition text (45 chapters, 68,074 words, collated against a named 1926 witness scan), a presentation page, an editor's gift introduction, the Twelve Nights reading plan (twelve sittings, 14 December to Christmas Day), a full introduction, Who's Who, four explainers, a short life of Montgomery, reading schedules, and 32 spoiler-fenced discussion questions. The 1926 edition carried no illustrations; the chapter ornaments are this edition's own, and the cover is an original painting made for this edition.