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Description
Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher and the real test of her character begins. She is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone's else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the stranger.
Summary
The book starts by revealing that Anne is to be the teacher of the Avonlea School, although she will still continue her studies at home with Gilbert, who is teaching at the nearby White Sands School. The book soon introduces Anne's new and problematic neighbor, Mr. Harrison and his obscene... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Anne Shirley: Once a spunky, freckled orphan who has grown up into a beautiful teacher of the Avonlea school. She still has not lost her imaginative spirit.
- Marilla Cuthbert: The woman who took Anne in six years before, Marilla now gets along with Anne much better.
- Gilbert Blythe: Anne's childhood enemy and now good friend. Gilbert is also a teacher at the nearby White Sands School. He is in love with Anne but does not yet admit it to her.
- Diana Barry: Anne's kindred spirit since childhood. The two remain best friends.
- Davy Keith: One of the twins who Marilla takes in. Davy is mischievous, loves to eat sweets and rarely does what he is told. He has fair, fuzzy ringlets all over his head, one dimple, roguish hazel eyes, a snub nose and is often smiling.
- Miss Lavender Lewis: An imaginative, attractive, old maid with snow white hair who Anne and Diana come across on their way to a friend's place. She becomes good friends with Anne.
- Paul Irving: One of Anne's students, an imaginative young boy and a fast friend for Anne. He was raised in the United States and has come to Avonlea to live with his paternal grandmother.
- Mr. J.A. Harrison: Anne and Marilla's new neighbour, a man who initially appears bad-tempered, but becomes a good friend of Anne with his grounded and practical attitude. He has a very rude parrot named Ginger.
Memorable Quotes
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“But that had been in springtime; and this was late autumn, and all the woods were leafless and the fields sere and brown. The sun was just setting with a great deal of purple and golden pomp behind the dark woods west of Avonlea when a buggy drawn by a comfortable brown nag came down the hill.”
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“The girls went home by the light of a calm golden sunset, their baskets filled with narcissus blossoms from Hester's garden, some of which Anne carried to the cemetery next day and laid upon Hester's grave. Minstrel robins were whistling in the firs and the frogs were singing in the marshes. All the basins among the hills were brimmed with topaz and emerald light.”
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First Sentence
A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.
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Series
This is book 2 in the Anne of Green Gables series.
Authors & Contributors
- L. M. Montgomery (Author)
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