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Description
Anne Shirley was a special girl with an enormous imagination, an orphan girl who dreamed of the day when she could call herself Anne of Green Gables.
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Summary
Marrilla and Matthew Cuthbert decided that they would adopt a son. They were old and weary and needed a young, strong helper to do the job around the farm. But when their "son" came, Marilla and Matthew got a big surprise. Somehow, Marrilla's friend had accidently brought them a girl. Anne... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters
- Anne Shirley: The dear Anne Shirley who was dropped off at the train station soon was well loved by her many friends in Avonlea. Dear Anne Shirley. NO matter how old she gets her heart and spirit will always be young and free and adventurous.
- Matthew Cuthbert: Although he and Marilla wanted a boy to work on their farm, they loved their dear Anne Shirley.
- Marilla Cuthbert: At first disapointed that Anne wasn't a boy who could work the farm, Marilla soon grew closer to Anne, the silly, adventurous girl she once was.
- Rachel Lynde: Strong and not easily stirred about and moved. Feelings and firm as a strong, wide tree. Is said to," put words together so fast and throw 'em at ya like a brick!"
- Diana Barry: A good, dear friend of Anne who has always been in the books---whether a big part or an eensy weensy tiny sentence in the book.
- Gilbert Blythe: The boy who called Anne "carrots". At first I thought he was snotty and mean but then once he got a older and I read more about him as I went through the series, I considered him a dear part of Anne Shirley's life.
Memorable Quotes
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“Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
Anne -
“It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?”
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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 their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.”
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“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”
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“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
First Sentence
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
Foreward
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
Afterword
Series
This is book 1 in the Anne Of Green Gables series.
Authors & Contributors
- L. M. Montgomery (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Kathleen Olmstead
- Mary-Claire Helldorfer (Illustrator)
- Jennifer Dussling (Author)
- Marc D. Falkoff
- Joe L. Wheeler
Awards
- Whitcoulls Top 100 (2008, #78)
- BBC's Big Read (2003: Best Loved Novel, #41)
- Waterstone's The Nation's Favourite Children's Books (1997, #20)
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