Anne of Green Gables
By: L.M. Montgomery
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a brother and sister living in Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, are getting old and have decided to get some additional help to maintain their farmland. They send word that they'll accept a boy from the orphanage into their home. But when Matthew goes to the train station to pick him up, all he finds is a lonely little 11 year old girl waiting for him. There's obviously been some mistake, but he can't very well leave her there, so he brings her back to their home, known locally as Green Gables. On the way he quickly takes a liking to this homely but very talkative little red-haired girl who seems so full of dreams, and he convinces Marilla to keep her. But Anne is so different from proper and sensible Marilla, and her occasional mistakes make them
Anne Shirley, the redheaded girl of Green Gables, may not want to grow older but time passes and requires it.Anne is leaving Green Gables for college with Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane. As she leaves she feels she will never see Green Gables the same way again. However new friends await Anne and new adventures.In this book, Anne receives her first proposal. Daina Berry is married. Marilla deals with the twins. The island is changing, her friends are changing but Anne remains as spirited and irrepressible as ever.
This book features a few new characters, one of them is a
queer, bad-tempered bald man, called Mr. Harrison. Anne and her friends also
start a club to improve the community, although some parts are interesting, this
bores me a bit.
Gilbert is not shown a lot in the book, and when he is, it's usually for a few
moments or for A.V.I.S, the club. Same with Diana.
You will find that this book is true to it's title, it focuses A LOT on the
Avonlea school. Most of the book is about the children, one dreamy boy in
particular.
Marilla and Anne also adopt two twins, a troublesome, yet lovable boy Davy, and
the prim, unemotional Dora. They have a lot in the book.
Oh, and Anne meets a new kindred spirit, Miss Lavender, the spinster in the cozy
cottage. Anne reunites Miss Lavender with her old, old sweetheart. And Miss
Lavender gets married to him. This was sweet, but somewhat dull. At the very end
of the book, Gilbert does give a hint to Anne, about how he feels about her.
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty--and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside's strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her delicious triumphs.
Unpredictable Anne marries her true love, Gilbert, and
continues with her adventures.
Gilbert has become a doctor and now Anne's wedding day has come, the first bride
of Green Gables. Now has come the time for Anne to leave Green Gables and she
does for her "House of Dreams."
Once again there are new friends. One new friend Captain Jim is full of tales including the moving "Lost Margaret".
Joy comes to Anne and in one day leaves again in the form of little Joyce. But time and James Mathew cure Anne of her sadness, but the memory of little Joyce never leaves.
Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Mary Maria visiting--and wearing out her welcome--Anne's life is full to bursting.
Still, Mrs. Doctor can't think of any place she'd rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn't love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable rehead--the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. She's ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again!
Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.