Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Knopf, 1995 - Juvenile Fiction - 396 pages

"She'll have to go back."

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had decided to adopt an orphan. They wanted a nice sturdy boy to help Matthew with the farm chores. The orphanage sent a girl instead - a mischievous, talkative redhead who the Cuthberts thought would be no use at all. But as soon as Anne arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever. And the longer Anne stayed, the harder it was for anyone to imagine Green Gables without her

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Although I own a hardback version given as a gift in college, one of my aunts gave me the boxed paperback set for Christmas when I was a young girl, and it is one of my favorite books of all time ...

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Contents

• CHAPTER: 7
• CHAPTER: 13
• Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised: 36
• Morning at Green Gables: 45
• Annes History: 54
• Marilla makes up her Mind: 62
• Anne says her Prayers: 69
• Mrs Rachel Lynde is Properly Horrified: 85
• Annes Apology: 94
• Annes Impressions of Sundayschool: 104
• A Solemn Vow and Promise: 111
• The Delights of Anticipation: 119
• Annes Confession: 126
• A Tempest in the School Teapot: 137
• Diana is invited to Tea with Tragic Results: 157
• A New Interest in Life: 172
• Anne to the Rescue: 180
• A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession: 193
• A New Departure in Flavorings: 217
• Anne is invited out to: 231
• Anne comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor: 237
• Miss Stacy and her Pupils get up a Concert: 246
• Matthew insists on Puffed Sleeves: 252
• The Story Club is Formed: 265
• Vanity and Vexation of Spirit: 275
• An Unfortunate Lily Maid: 284
• An Epoch in Annes Life: 295
• The Queens Class is Organized: 307
• Where the Brook and River Meet: 322
• The Pass List is Out: 331
• The Hotel Concert: 341
• A Queens Girl: 354
• The Winter at Queens: 363
• The Glory and the Dream: 369
• The Reaper whose Name is Death: 377
• The Bend in the Road: 386

About the author

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was born in the village of Clifton (now New London) on Prince Edward Island in Canada. She was brought up by her grandparents after her mother died when she was two. Later her father moved away to Saskatchewan, where he remarried, and when she spent some months in his new home she was not happy. 'I do not think', she wrote, 'that the majority of grownups have any real conception of the tortures sensitive children suffer over any marked difference between themselves and the other denizens of their small world.'

While working as a reporter for the Halifax Daily Echo, she wrote Anne of Green Gables in the evenings over a period of eighteen months and when it was rejected by four publishers she put it away for two years. Then she revised it and a Boston publisher accepted it at once. When it appeared in 1908 the book proved so popular that ever afterwards she felt constrained by the public's constant demand for more stories about Anne. She did write five sequels – as well as many other novels – and they made her rich, but none reached the classic status of the first.

In 1911 she married Ewan Macdonald. She had two sons; she enjoyed fame and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. She died in Toronto in 1942 and was buried in Cavendish Cemetery, not far from her birthplace.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Anne of Green Gables; Issue 1 of Avonlea Series; Children's classics; Everyman's Library Children's Classics; Everyman's library; Focus on the Family great stories
• Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Illustrated by: Sybil Tawse
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Knopf, 1995
• ISBN: 0679444750, 9780679444756
• Length: 396 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes; Young Adult Fiction / Classics; Young Adult Fiction / Family / Adoption; Young Adult Fiction / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes