Along the Shore: Tales of the Sea
About the Book
Edited by Rea Wilmshurst
First published in 1989 by McClelland and Stewart
Along the Shore: Tales of the Sea is a volume of 16 stories, collected and published by Rea Wilmshurst. The stories, originally published in various magazines and newspapers between 1897 - 1930, deal with those whose lives are influenced by the sea.
Montgomery grew up on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in PEI, and was familiar with both the beauty and danger which the sea presented. Rea Wilmshurst’s introduction points out that Montgomery had a particularly strong love for the sea. The sea furnishes a beautiful backdrop for several romantic short stories, while in others, it is a powerful force of nature that threatens human lives. The sea also exercises a strong emotional bond on those who live beside it. In these stories, we meet fishermen’s families, lighthouse keepers and sea-captains who are intimate with the sea, and passing tourists whose lives are changed forever by events on the shore.
Stories
- The Magical Bond of the Sea (1903)
- The Life-Book of Uncle Jesse (1909)
- Mackereling Out in the Gulf (1905)
- Fair Exchange and No Robbery (1907)
- Natty of Blue Point (1904)
- The Light on the Big Dipper (1906)
- An Adventure on Island Rock (1906)
- How Don Was Saved (1904)
- A Soul that Was Not at Home (1909)
- Four Winds (1908)
- A Sandshore Wooing (1903)
- The Unhappiness of Miss Farquhar (1903)
- A Strayed Allegiance (1897)
- The Waking of Helen (1901)
- Young Si (1901)
- A House Divided Against Itself (1930)
