The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we offer the sixth First Chapter Collection" in which readers share the first chapters of a variety of fiction and non-fiction works.
01 Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery 02 Anthem Ayn Rand 03 The Age of Big Business - Industrial America at the End of the Civil War (Chronicles of America Series Volume 39) 1919 Burton J. Hendrick 04 Cur Deus Homo Anselm of Canterbury 05 Eight Cousins or The Aunt Hill Louisa May Alcott 06 Elements of Political Economy James Mill 07 Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman 08 In the Valley Harold Frederic 09 The Life and Letters of Hamilton W. Mabie Edwin W. Morse 10 A Passage to India E. M. Forster 11 Prevailing Prayer Dwight L. Moody 12 The Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers: And Their Founding of New Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony Albert Christopher Addison 13 Longinus on the Sublime Cassius Longinus 14 Obras Escogidas Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 15 Paris Vistas Helen Davenport Gibbons 16 The Red Hand of Ulster George A. Birmingham 17 Siddhartha An Indian Tale Hermann Hesse 18 Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder Shan Bullock 19 The World's Great Capitals of Today -Montreal, Quebec, Melbourne and Sydney From With the World's Great Travellers 1901 Charles Morris 20 Youth’s Way Cale Young Rice
Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.
Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911. She had three children and wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.