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Anne of Green Gables
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Anne of Green Gables: Book 1

Anne of Green Gables (1908) (edit title/settings)

by L. M. Montgomery (Author) (edit contributors)

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Anne Shirley was adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert who wanted to adopt a boy, but by accident recieved a girl. Anne is a very talkative and energetic girl who is always positive and trouble maker. Anne gets into a lot of problems with her behavior because she talks a lot and she is... read more

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Anne of Green Gables is a story about a girl who is adopted by Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. Anne is a very outspoken girl that is moving in with a very quiet and proper family. Anne is very energetic, and she is very talkative. She is optimistic, and dramatic. Since Anne is a very... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Anne of Green Gables is a story about a girl who is adopted by Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. Anne is a very outspoken girl that is moving in with a very quiet and proper family. Anne is very energetic, and she is very talkative. She is optimistic, and dramatic. Since Anne is a very talkative girl, she gets herself into a lot of trouble. However, Anne never tries to get in trouble- she always has the best, albeit naive intentions and plans which almost always contain some type of folly that overwhelms Anne's best efforts. Anne never looks at the negative side of things; she always looks at the positive side of things.
Anne meets a girl named Diana Barry who becomes her very best friend. Diana and she become very close and make up imaginary names for places, and make up imaginary stories. They spend a lot of time together. As Anne is living in Avonlea, she encounters many things. A boy by the name of Gilbert Blythe makes fun of her hair, she gets into trouble with her teacher, she gets Diana Barry drunk (by accident) and she yells at Mrs. Lynde. Anne breaks her ankle by falling off of a ridgepole, dyes her hair green and she almost poisons the ministers wife, Mrs. Allan.
Anne gets into a lot of problems but over the years she gets better and makes fewer mistakes. Near the end of the book Anne and Marilla are faced with a huge loss. Matthew has passed away. Anne decides that she is not going to take the scholarship to Redmond. Anne decides that she wants to stay with Marilla and teach at one of the nearby schools. In the end Anne was given a teaching job at the school in Avonlea, she forgave Gilbert Blythe and they talked for awhile. Anne in the end has grown up into a beautiful, intelligent young woman.

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  • Anne Shirley: A talkative and energetic redheaded girl who is adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. She makes quite a few mistakes, large and small, throughout the book. She is a very dramatic girl who does very crazy and sometimes rude things. She has a huge imagination, and when she doesn't like something her imagination draws a picture of this thing she doesn't like in a way that she just loves it...if that makes any sense.
  • Matthew Cuthbert: A quiet and shy man who loves Anne instantly. He helps convince his sister Marilla to adopt Anne. He loved to spoil Anne.
  • Marilla Cuthbert: A proper woman who lives with her brother at Green Gables. She adopts Anne. She is also a friend to Mrs. Rachel Lynde. Her strictness teaches Anne many life lessons.
  • Diana Barry: An honest and trustworthy friend who is Anne's best friend, they spend a lot of time together and they use their imaginations together. She has "raven-black" hair and good looks, although she is slightly over-weight. Anne still loves her dearly though, and envies that she has dimples.
  • Mrs. Rachel Lynde: Nosy neighbor of the Cuthberts that prides herself on speaking her mind. Anne and Rachel continually knock heads as they are both stubborn and hard headed.
  • Gilbert Blythe: A boy that goes to Anne's school. He often teases the girls, and he's "awful handsome". Anne gets really mad at him when he calls her 'Carrots' on her first day of school.
  • Jane Andrews: One of Anne's friends—a rather plain and sensible girl, with not much imagination.
  • Mrs. Allan: The Sunday school teacher and the minister's wife at Avonlea church. A lovely person, very fashionable and caring about little girls. Anne whole-heartedly loves her.
  • Mr. Phillips: The teacher at Avonlea school. He's very strict and sarcastic, and flirts with Prissy Andrews shamelessly instead of focusing on teaching often.
  • Ruby Gillis: Anne's friend. Ruby is known to become hysterical very quickly, but is known as a beauty. She has blond hair.
  • Miss Stacy: A teacher who inspires Anne and the rest of her students to achieve their goals and reach for the sky.
  • Josie Pye: A snobby girl in school with Anne. Because of the "Pye" coming out in her, she has a sharp tongue and usually looks for the worst in people. She's a rather insufferable little girl.
  • Mrs. Thomas: Raised Anne after her parents died.
  • Anne Shirley: A classmate of Anne's and friend of Gilbert's.
  • Minnie May: Diana's little sister.
  • Josephine Barry: Diana's father's aunt. Somewhat selfish. Takes amusement in Anne, and calls her " that Anne-girl".
  • Mr. Bell: A preacher who gives rather dull, monotonous speeches. He makes Anne fall asleep during his boring message.
  • Mrs. Hammond: Takes care of Anne after Mrs. Thomas.
  • Mrs. Blewett: A very shrewd and strict woman.
  • Katie Maurice: Anne's old imaginary friend in who lives in the reflection of a bookcase window.
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  • ““Then I dare you to do it,” said Josie defiantly. “I dare you to climb up there and walk the ridgepole of Mr. Barry’s kitchen roof.” (Montgomery 236)”
    Josie Pye
  • ““I can’t. I’m in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”(Montgomery 34)”
    Anne Shirley
  • “I’m just as ambitious as ever. Only, I’ve changed the object of my ambitions.” (388 Montgomery)”
    Anne Shirley
  • “Wild horses won't drag the secret from me. How would wild horses drag a secret from a person anyhow?”
    Anne Shirley
  • “Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, `Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”
    Anne Shirley
  • “That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
    Anne Shirley
  • “God in heaven, all is well in the world.”
    Anne Shirley
  • “...And she felt very miserable; every other little girl in the class had puffed sleeves. Anne felt that life was really not worth living without puffed sleeves.”
    L. M. Montgomery
  • “'Don't give up all your romance, Anne,' he whispered shyly, 'a little of it is a good thing - not too much, of course - but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.'”
    Matthew Cuthbert
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  • For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

First Sentence edit see section history

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Forward
Chapter 1 - Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised
Chapter 2 - Matthew Cuthbert is Surprised
Chapter 3 - Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised
Chapter 4 - Morning at Green Gables
Chapter 5 - Anne's History
Chapter 6 - Marilla Makes up Her Mind
Chapter 7 - Anne Says Her Prayers
Chapter 8 - Anne's Bringing-up is Begun
Chapter 9 - Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Properly Horrified
Chapter 10 - Anne's Apology
Chapter 11 - Anne's Impressions of Sunday School
Chapter 12 - A Solemn Vow and Promise
Chapter 13 - The Delights of Anticipation
Chapter 14 - Anne's Confession
Chapter 15 - A Tempest in the School Teapot
Chapter 16 - Diana is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
Chapter 17 - A New Interest in Life
Chapter 18 - Anne to the Rescue
Chapter 19 - A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
Chapter 20 - A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
Chapter 21 - A New Departure in Flavorings
Chapter 22 - Anne is Invited Out to Tea
Chapter 23 - Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor
Chapter 24 - Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert
Chapter 25 - Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves
Chapter 26 - The Story Club is Formed
Chapter 27 - Vanity and Vexation of Spirit
Chapter 28 - An Unfortunate Lily Maid
Chapter 29 - An Epoch in Anne's Life
Chapter 30 - The Queen's Class is Organized
Chapter 31 - Where the Brook and River Meet
Chapter 32 - The Pass List is Out
Chapter 33 - The Hotel Concert
Chapter 34 - A Queen's Girl
Chapter 35 - The Winter at Queen's
Chapter 36 - The Glory and the Dream
Chapter 37 - The Reaper Whose Name is Death
Chapter 38 - The Bend in the Road
Afterward

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Bildungsroman: a coming-of-age novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 8 in Anne of Green Gables. (standard series)

Followed by Anne of Avonlea.

This book is in Parragon Children's Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This is book 41 of 196 in BBC 'Big Read' Top 200 Novels, 2003. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Emma, and followed by Watership Down.

This is book 46 of 95 in Telegraph Top 100 Books, 2008. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Woman in White, and followed by Far from the Madding Crowd.

Preceded by To Kill a Mockingbird, and followed by Great Expectations.

This book is in Random Synapses: 100 Book Reading Challenge (2011). (community list)
This is book 432 of 986 in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Wind in the Willows, and followed by Las aventuras extraordinarias de Massagran.

This book is in Readers Digest Press. (edition-based publisher list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. L. M. Montgomery (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. May Claus (Illustrator) - Original
  2. William Claus (Illustrator) - Original
  3. Joe L. Wheeler (Introduction)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: L. C. Page & Co.
Country: United States
Publication Date: June 1908
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 429

Classification edit see section history

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Great book to show young girls how a proper lady (in 19th century Canada) behaves.

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

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Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Looking for Anne of Green Gables
  • Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
  • The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

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