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Anne's House of Dreams chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together in Four Winds Point. Gilbert takes over his uncle's medical practice while Anne makes their "house of dreams" a home. Anne like at Green Gables... read more
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Characters edit
- Anne Blythe (Shirley): The main character, Gilbert's wife, went to Redmond and was a teacher
- Gilbert Blythe: Anne's doctor husband, childhood sweetheart and academic rival
- Captain Jim: Keeper of the lighthouse and of many old stories, bachelor
- Miss Cornelia Bryant: Anne's chatty neighbor, unmarried at 40
- Marilla: Anne's adopted mother
- Joyce: Young girl
- Leslie Moore: Anne's mysterious neighbor with a tragic past, when she loses her father and brother her mother forces her to marry Dick at the age of 16
- Dick Moore: Leslie's husband, has a brain injury and is completely dependent on Leslie
- Owen Ford: Writer of Captain Jim's writing
- Susan Baker: the "housekeeper" of the Blythes
- James Matthew Blythe: Young boy
Quotes edit
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“(ch. 37 1st page)..and the orange lilies at the gate of Anne's garden held up their imperial cups to be filled with the molten gold of August sunshine”
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“It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty, and there's nothing worse than emptiness.”
Leslie -
“"The pink roses are love hopeful and expectant - the white roses are love dead or forsaken. But the red roses - ah, Leslie - what are the red roses?""Love triumphant", said Leslie in a low voice.”
Owen to Leslie -
“Why should she be born at all - why should everyone be born at all - if she is better off dead? I don't believe it is better for a child to die at birth than to live its life out - and love and be loved - and enjoy and suffer - and do its work - and develop a character that would give it a personality in eternity.”
Anne
Setting & Locations edit
- Green Gables: Anne's former home
- Avonlea: Anne's former hometown
- Montreal
- Prince Edward Island
- Charlottetown: Local large town
- Nova Scotia
First Sentence edit
'Thanks be, I'm done with geometry, learning or teaching it,' said Anne Shirley, a trifle vindictively, as she thumped a somewhat battered volume of Euclid into a big chest of books, banged the lid in triumph, and sat down upon it, looking at Diana Wright across the Green Gables garret, with gray eyes that were like a morning sky.
Table of Contents edit
1. In the Garret of Green Gables
2. The House of Dreams
3. The Land of Dreams Among
4. The First Bride of Green Gables
5. The Home Coming
6. Captain Jim
7. The Schoolmaster's Bride
8. Miss Cornelia Bryant Comes to Call
9. An Evening at Four Winds Point
10. Leslie Moore
11. The Story of Leslie Moore
12. Leslie Comes Over
13. A Ghostly Evening
14. November Days
15. Christmas at Four Winds
16. New Year's Eve at the Light
17. A Four Winds Winter
18. Spring Days
19. Dawn and Dusk
20. Lost Margaret
21. Barriers Swept Away
22. Miss Cornelia Arranges Matters
23. Owen Ford Comes
24. The Life-Book of Captain Jim
25. The Writing of the Book
26. Owen Ford's Confession
27. On the Sand-Bar
28. Odds and Ends
29. Gilbert and Anne Disagree
30. Leslie Decides
31. The Truth Makes Free
32. Miss Cornelia Discusses the Affair
33. Leslie Returns
34. The Ship O' Dreams Comes to Harbour
35. Politics at Four Winds
36. Beauty for Ashes
37. Miss Cornelia Makes a Startling Announcement
38. Red Roses
39. Captain Jim Crosses the Bar
40. Farewell to the House of Dreams
Glossary edit
- 'The Race That Knows Joseph': I found this useful to explain this unusual phrase from the book <used by Miss Cornelia and Captain Jim and Anne and others>http://thepittards.blogspot.com/2008/12/race-that-knows-joseph.html
Series & Lists edit
This is book 5 of 8 in Anne of Green Gables. (standard series)
Preceded by Anne of Windy Poplars, and followed by Anne of Ingleside.
Authors & Contributors edit
- L. M. Montgomery (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 1917
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 346
Publisher: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 1917
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 346
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 745
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