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    Anne of Green Gables
    Anne of Green Gables
    Anne of Green Gables
    Audiobook10 hours

    Anne of Green Gables

    Written by L. M. Montgomery

    Narrated by Susan McCarthy

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    Anne is adopted by the Cuthberts even after a great mistake at the orphanage. But the frail red-headed young girl stays, even though not wanted at first. She is raised strictly but lovingly by the Cuthberts whose world is set upside down by her wonderful, creative and sometime crazy and eccentric ways. In the end, she gives them endless joy as she grows into womanhood.

    Table of Contents:
    Chapter I - Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised
    Chapter II - Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised
    Chapter III - Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
    Chapter IV - Morning at Green Gables
    Chapter V - Anne's History
    Chapter VI - Marilla Makes Up Her Mind
    Chapter VII - Anne Says Her Prayers
    Chapter VIII - Anne's Bringing-Up Is Begun
    Chapter IX - Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified
    Chapter X - Anne's Apology
    Chapter XI - Anne's Impressions of Sunday School
    Chapter XII - A Solemn Vow and Promise
    Chapter XIII - The Delights of Anticipation
    Chapter XIV - Anne's Confession
    Chapter XV - A Tempest in the School Teapot
    Chapter XVI - Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
    Chapter XVII - A New Interest in Life
    Chapter XVIII - Anne to the Rescue
    Chapter XIX - A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession
    Chapter XX - A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
    Chapter XXI - A New Departure in Flavorings
    Chapter XXII - Anne is Invited Out to Tea
    Chapter XXIII - Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor
    Chapter XXIV - Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert
    Chapter XXV - Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves
    Chapter XXVI - The Story Club Is Formed
    Chapter XXVII - Vanity and Vexation of Spirit
    Chapter XXVIII - An Unfortunate Lily Maid
    Chapter XXIX - An Epoch in Anne's Life
    Chapter XXX - The Queens Class Is Organized
    Chapter XXXI - Where the Brook and River Meet
    Chapter XXXII - The Pass List Is Out
    Chapter XXXIII - The Hotel Concert
    Chapter XXXIV - A Queen's Girl
    Chapter XXXV - The Winter at Queen's
    Chapter XXXVI - The Glory and the Dream
    Chapter XXXVII - The Reaper Whose Name Is Death
    Chapter XXXVIII - The Bend in the Road
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlcazar Audio Works
    Release dateJan 1, 2006
    ISBN9780978755355
    Author

    L. M. Montgomery

    L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author who published 20 novels and hundreds of short stories, poems, and essays. She is best known for the Anne of Green Gables series. Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London) on Prince Edward Island on November 30, 1874. Raised by her maternal grandparents, she grew up in relative isolation and loneliness, developing her creativity with imaginary friends and dreaming of becoming a published writer. Her first book, Anne of Green Gables, was published in 1908 and was an immediate success, establishing Montgomery's career as a writer, which she continued for the remainder of her life.

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    • 5/5
      I thought I had read this as a child, but I don't think I ever did. I loved it and can't wait to read the next two in the series! I listened on Audible and the narration was wonderful, and really brought the book to life. I feel like if Anne was a real person, WE would be kindred spirits! And Prince Edward Island in Canada sounds so lovely; I hope I can visit there one day. I highly recommend this classic book!
    • 5/5
      Anne is overdramatic and non-traditional. She seems to have gotten all of her ideas about life from books and her own imagination. She ends up with an elderly brother and sister by accident, but they find themselves charmed by her unusual mannerisms, imagination, and passion for life. Anne grows up at Green Gables, putting her own spin on things, and does an excellent job away at high school for a year. Her next step is only to decide whether to go away to college.
    • 4/5
      I feel that this book is a nice heart warming story for young girls. It follows a young girl named Anne through her life adventures. Anne is an orphan and gets chosen by a family that has a house in a beautiful part of the country equipped with beautiful green gables. Her new parents initially wanted a boy but decided that Anne would work just fine instead. Anne does get into a lot of trouble but makes a good friend in spite of everything and realizes that she does not have to be like everyone else.
    • 4/5
      A charming book about life on Prince Edward Island. A favorite of many girls.
    • 5/5
      A delightful read, witty and wonderful and imaginative
    • 4/5
      Once you read this you just have to keep reading the rest of the series. You become absorbed in Anne's life, and her character. She is recognisable as, if not yourself, someone you know.
    • 4/5
      Thoroughly delightful.
    • 5/5
      Great charming children's classic.
    • 5/5
      Delightful, though fairly fluffy. An excellent gift for a girl between about eight and twelve, especially if she's bright and a little flighty or strong-willed. Women who remember being bright and flighty or strong-willed will probably also enjoy it. There's no real plot beyond "growing up as a smart girl in late 19th-century rural Canada," though of course things happen and character growth occurs and all of that good kind of stuff. I enjoyed it, but I also used to look out at forests and imagine them to be far more spectacular than they really were, and such.The only reason I took half a star off is that I really do like reading about action and adventure a bit more than reading about meandering through childhood and growing as a person.
    • 5/5
      I am sure, I say this of all the books I like but I believe Anne of Green Gables to be my favorite children's book of all times. I really love the idyllic and quaint nature of Avonlea and Green Gables. A place where hard work is revered and nature's beauty is beloved. I also love the themes of this novel and what children can take from it. We all were children, we all got into a scrap or two, but we can still grow into responsible and respectable adults. I loved Anne from the first minute the book began. I had watched the PBS cartoon when I was younger and did have some idea of who Anne was, but that was nothing compared to reading the book. They could not capture the lore of Anne or the beauty of Avonlea in a cartoon, only imagination will do.
    • 5/5
      I grew up with Anne. I love the Anne Shirley books!
    • 5/5
      A headstrong, young orphan girl grows up in her adopted family on Prince Edward Island. A young adult classic. Perfectly constructed and enjoyed by adults and children.
    • 5/5
      A young orphan girl, Anne, is taken in by the Cuthberts Matthew and Marilla. They had requested a boy from the asylum (orphanage) but were presented with a girl. At first they were intent on sending her back but after her nonstop chatter and mannerism they didn't have the heart plus they were growing quite fond of her so she was allowed to stay. Anne is full of imagination and dreams and gets into much mischief but she is a joy to behold nonetheless. She grows up in Avonlea on Green Gables the Cuthbert's property and makes friends and enemies just the same. It is quite a delightful story and a classic in its own right.
    • 5/5
      I LOVE this book. Montgomery has a way of creating characters that are alive. You believe everything about them. Her writing style is unmatched. Her use of words, amazing. I am glad there is more to Anne than just this book. I hope I enjoy the others as much as I have enjoyed this one. I completely agree with the statement on the cover of this book - "The most beloved, beguiling and timeless heroine in all of fiction!"
    • 5/5
      I read this when I was about ten or eleven, and forgot how much I adored it. I've finally got the whole set of the Anne books, so I sat down to reread this one today. It's easy to read, and charming, and more touching than I'd remembered -- I came over all sniffly a couple of times. And I also had a lot of delighted little giggles.
    • 5/5
      I loved this, Anne's imagination was amazing, it was great to read a book and be reminded of how we saw things as a child.

      Her relationships with people were also interesting, I especially enjoyed watching how Marilla and Matthew changed over the course of the story.
    • 5/5
      I read _Anne of Green Gables_ probably more than 20 times as a young person. I recently started re-reading it with my daughter, and--although we are early on as yet--it is as fresh as it ever was, with a character who still appeals, and enough drama and emotion to satisfy even kids used to today's more action-oriented children's lit.
    • 5/5
      Anne (with an ‘e’ of course) Shirley starts out as a mistake. The elderly Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had planned on adopting a boy to help Matthew with the chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. What are they to do with the red-haired, high-spirited girl who arrives instead? This is a great children series especially for little girls. I loved Anne's spirit, her imagination and her adventures. She would be a great friend and a fun playmate. Highly recommended and a great look at life on Prince Edward Island. A must classic read for young and old.
    • 5/5
      Anne of Green Gables is one of the first series I really remember reading. I'm sure I read The Boxcar Children first, but when I think of my first I think of the Anne series. I would have to say that I fully credit this series with my love of books and readings. I loved it so much that I had to have every book by Lucy Maud Montgomery (sans all the short story collections). I enjoyed Anne's attitude and loved the mistakes that she made and the adventures that she went on. As she grew up, she didn't get boring, her adventures just changed and I enjoyed them just as much. While this is historical fiction, and therefore might not be for everyone, I would still encourage everyone to give it a chance.
    • 5/5
      A classic written a century ago, this story describes Anne's adventures in school and on the Cuthburts estate as an orphan girl with a wild imagination
    • 3/5
      Sometimes a book that you read when you were young and which you absolutely adored holds its appeal when reread as an adult, sometimes it doesn't.For me, Anne of Green Gables falls in the "doesn't" tally. I adored the series of books about Anne Shirley when I was in middle school - I think I read the whole set no less than five or six times in a three year period. I wanted very much to be a part of Anne's community, with all the interesting relationships (and gossip) to be had, and the amazing things Anne and Diana were able to imagine. In fact, looking back on that period, my parents have commented that they were a bit worried because every time I'd go through a phrase of reading nothing but books by Montgomery, my personality would start to show mimicry of Anne and the other girls. I don't actually remember this myself, but I don't doubt that it happened - I have Asperger's Syndrome and often will unconsciously mimic real people's behaviors, and I definitely immersed myself in my books enough for the characters to seem real to me.At any rate, I adored Anne Shirley and Anne of Green Gables was for a very long time my favorite of the series. I liked that it wasn't bogged down with her romance with Gilbert Blythe as much as some of the later stories are, and the scene where Anne and Diana act out the Tennyson poem is one of my favorites. I also enjoyed the newness of all the imagination stuff, as Anne and Diana create their little world and give things names, before it all becomes more ordinary. I loved the overarching story of Anne being a lonely orphan outsider who slowly makes Avonlea become her home, and the residents of the town her family. It always crushed me when dear old Matthew dies at the end, leaving Anne and Marilla in Green Gables alone.But. But but but. Trying to read the novel now, ten to twelve years on, it's almost unbearable. Trying to get through the purple prose (which is mostly Anne's fault, really) and the scads upon scads of imaginings is like sludging through a swampy marsh. It's difficult and annoying and I just want to skip ahead to the plotty bits. I still quite like the plotty bits, mind, and the town gossip, and the characters. But I have no patience for Anne's dreamery, and I feel rather more like Marilla as she is at the start as I read.It's not the book that has changed, since that can't be. I suppose that I've grown up and my tastes have changed. My favorite of the Anne Shirley series is no longer Anne of Green Gables or Rainbow Valley, but Anne of Windy Poplars with Rilla of Ingleside following. While I still appreciate Anne of Green Gables and love it with a fond remembrance, it has been demoted from its place on my shelf for books to take with me to a Deserted Island.
    • 4/5
      I've never read this before, and I found it delightful. Anne is such a real character. I'll be reading through the rest of this series.
    • 5/5
      It's been 50 years since I first read this book, so when I saw the free Kindle edition, I decided to see if it was as good as my vague memory thought it was. It definitely was as good—actually better than I remembered. I laughed out loud, wiped away tears, and thoroughly enjoyed getting reacquainted with Anne "with an e."
    • 5/5
      A staid old brother and sister take in an orphan with a huge imagination. I adored this book when I was little, and it has held up well. Even as an adult, I am able to enjoy it.
    • 5/5
      There is little more someone can say about a book like this---probably one of the best books ever written. I'll just tell a little story about my first reading of it. I had resisted reading it for years---I didn't like to be told as a preteen what I would like and not like to read, and so many people had told me I would love this book that I certainly knew I wasn't. I must have read the first few lines about a hundred times and didn't care for them much, and this reinforced my views. Finally one day I must have been out of other things to read, and I read one, and once I got past the first few pages of course I was hooked, and went on to read the book about five times in a row that month! I still cry when I think about Matthew, I still wish I had named my daughter Marilla, and I love Anne like a sister.
    • 5/5
      Story OverviewOn Prince Edward Island in the little town of Avonlea, brother and sister Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert decide to adopt a young boy to help out around their farm. Both are getting older and know they'll need some help to keep the farm going. They send word to a local woman who is going to the orphanage to bring them home an 11-year-old boy. But when Matthew goes to the train station to pick up the boy, he is surprised to find a young girl -- Anne Shirley.Shy and tongue-tied around others, Matthew reluctantly agrees to take Anne home until the mix-up can be sorted out. But on the ride home, Anne charms Matthew with her imagination, vivacity and view of the world. By the time they reach the Cuthbert house at Green Gables, he is convinced he wants Anne to stay with them. His sister, Marilla, is not so sure -- but after a few days -- she too falls under Anne's spell and the little orphan girl finds a home in Green Gables.The book focuses on Anne's coming of age at Green Gables -- her problems with her flaming red hair, her big imagination, her dreaminess and the various escapades and problems caused by all of these aspects of her personality. She finds a "bosom friend" in her neighbor Diana and flourishes at the local school -- except for her long-standing rivalry with Gilbert Blythe (who dared to call her "Carrots" one time.) The book follows Anne until her entry into the Queen's school and eventual return home to Green Gables.My ThoughtsWhat can I say? This book was so charming and delightful! I cannot imagine a reader who would not fall in love with Anne -- it is no surprise that all of Avonlea falls under her spell! I know this is considered a children's book, and I wish I had read it when I was Anne's age -- I know I would have just adored her and modeled myself after her!The writing is just delightful, and Anne's frequent monologues are just so charming. She is the type of person who is so full of life, zest and (most of all) IMAGINATION that you feel yourself drawn to her -- just like Matthew and Marilla. I love that she hates her red hair and freckles, frets about not having puffs on her sleeves, and daydreams while she is supposed to be doing chores. Anne is so relatable and down-to-earth that even a modern day girl could relate to her. After all, what tween girl doesn't fret about the physical attributes that make them different, wish for clothes of the latest fashion and spend inordinate amount of times daydreaming?The other charm of the book was Anne's love of nature and her constant ecstasy at the beauty around her. I've never been to Prince Edward Island (located in Canada) but the descriptions in the book make it sound like an idyllic and enchanted place. (Of course, Anne could make anything sound amazing and better than life.)My Final RecommendationAnne of Green Gables definitely deserves its place as a classic of children's literature. I am so glad I took the time to read it, and I would recommend it unreservedly to a reader looking for a charming and delightful book that hearkens back to a simpler time and space. And if you have a young girl in your life with literary tendencies, I think this would make a wonderful gift! I wish I'd gotten it when I was young!
    • 5/5
      Although some of the titles that follow in this series are good, the first is the best. This novel conjures a beautiful image of life on Prince Edward Island in the early 1900s. Anne continues to charm readers nearly 100 years after its original publication.
    • 4/5
      The classic story of the red headed orphan who is adopted by accident by a Prince Edward Island spinster and her bachelor brother is still a lot of fun to read. Despite being overly romantic, the story moves along very quickly and should keep a young person's interest. After recently watching the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's production with my granddaughters and a recent attendance at the local Kempenfelt Players production the musical version of the story, I felt I should read the book. I was not disappointed.
    • 4/5
      I can't believe it's taken me so long to read this. I feel like somehow I missed out on an integral part of childhood by not reading this as a young girl. What a fun, charming, beautiful tale of an orphan girl and her new family. Heartwarming and entertaining. I look forward to the rest of the series.
    • 5/5
      When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either.