Anne of Green Gables: Three Volumes in One

published	December 28th 1988 by Gramercy
first published	1908
binding	Hardcover
isbn	0517605171 (isbn13: 9780517605172)
ebook
pages	656
description	When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for ...more [close] 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. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [close]
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Samantha rated it:

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04/27/08

bookshelves: young-adult

Read in March, 2008

Ive decided that instead of reviewing this book, I will copy my favorite passages....passages that capture what I love about the book.....
Page 180 describes Anne perfectly, "The downfall of some dear hope or plan plunged Anne into "deeps of affliction." The fulfilment thereof exalted her to dizzy realms of delight."
I love the way Anne thinks...I love the way she jumps from thing to thing in a frenzy of thoughts.....

Page 44 the chapter begins..."Do you know,"...more

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Jessica rated it:

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07/01/08

Read in June, 2008

I was prompted to reread Anne of Green Gables in June to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its first publication. In honor of the anniversary, Kate is hosting a group read and Mrs S is hosting a mini-challenge. This post contains *SPOILERS*. Hasn’t everyone read Anne of Green Gables?

Anne Shirley is one of my favorite literary heroines (second, only, to Elizabeth Bennett). Though I first found and loved Anne as a child, this reading of Anne of Green Gables was just as magical as it was the...more I was prompted to reread Anne of Green Gables in June to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its first publication. In honor of the anniversary, Kate is hosting a group read and Mrs S is hosting a mini-challenge. This post contains *SPOILERS*. Hasn’t everyone read Anne of Green Gables?

Anne Shirley is one of my favorite literary heroines (second, only, to Elizabeth Bennett). Though I first found and loved Anne as a child, this reading of Anne of Green Gables was just as magical as it was the first time I picked it up more than fifteen years ago.

The theme that struck me most this time around was that of morals. The theme is introduced early on: “Marilla was as fond of morals as the Duchess in Wonderland, and was firmly convinced that one should be tacked on to every remark made to a child who was being brought up.” And repeated throughout: “‘But we’re so careful to put a moral into them all, Marilla,’ explained Anne. ‘I insist upon that. All the good people are rewarded and all the bad ones are suitably punished. I’m sure that must have a wholesome effect. The moral is the great thing.’”

However, Anne’s simplistic idea of morals does not always hold true. Marilla and Matthew (need I say it?) are the salt of the earth. They kindly take in a little orphan who will not be able to help on the farm. They grow to love Anne as they would have a child. However, they lose all of their savings; Matthew dies; Marilla’s eyes go bad. And, Anne, a well-intentioned child and an even better young adult, must make the decision to fulfill her academic pursuits or to stay in Avonlea.

Anne, in my opinion, is the essence of morality. She is a good person. She makes mistakes, but she is a good person, who honestly tries to be good and nice. She does well in school. She earns a scholarship for college. She is kind. And, in the end, she makes the moral choice and decides to stay in Avonlea with Marilla to help her. In today’s world, Anne would be considered entitled to go to college because she earned it. She would likely be seen as giving up her own dreams for little or no reason; Marilla is perfectly capable of selling Green Gables and moving in with Mrs. Lynde. However, Anne makes the choice that she knows will make her happy.

“I’m just as ambitious as ever. Only, I’ve changed the object of my ambitions. I’m going to be a good teacher - and I’m going to save your eyesight. Besides, I mean to study at home here and take a little college course all by myself. Oh, I’ve dozens of plans, Marilla. I’ve been thinking them out for a week. I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return. When I left Queen’s my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new beauties - what curves and hills and valleys further on.”

In the end, that is what makes Anne of Green Gables memorable to me. The story of a little girl, who gets into endless scrapes, but who turns out to have a character worthy of those who lovingly brought her up....less

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08/05/08

bookshelves: all-classics, juvenile-fiction

Read in August, 2008

What can i say? Reading "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy M. Montgomery, was an extraordinary ride through a beautiful adventure; washed with tears, smiles and bursts of laughter as I found that I was powerless to not like the story or the character of Anne Shirley.

The story is lengthy--429 pages--and many times I felt I was in another more realistic version of the idea of a 'never ending story', and yet, Anne of Green Gables, latched into my heart, and pulled me willy-nilly through h...more What can i say? Reading "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy M. Montgomery, was an extraordinary ride through a beautiful adventure; washed with tears, smiles and bursts of laughter as I found that I was powerless to not like the story or the character of Anne Shirley.

The story is lengthy--429 pages--and many times I felt I was in another more realistic version of the idea of a 'never ending story', and yet, Anne of Green Gables, latched into my heart, and pulled me willy-nilly through her growing up years on Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Green Gables. Lucy Montgomery paints with a talent, her words are used with art and a gift, before I realized it, Anne Shirley was dragging me from one height of experience to another despairing ordeal, to the unsuspecting laughter out from the next pages just right around the corner, waiting to attack my heart with the joy of laughter that was unrestrained and felt beautiful

Anne of Green Gables was written by Lucy Maud Montgomery in 1908 and so this is this year, actually the 100th Anniversary for Anne of Green Gables. It is a wonderful story that I wished I had grown up having read, but 'it's better late than never', and possibly is better late because of my more mature appreciation for the story and all it carries in it. Anne is an orphan girl, and until she is eleven years old, is shuffled from one home to another, basically being unloved, and used for whatever work that family needed her for. By sheer mistake, she was selected from an Orphanage, to go to the Green Gables farm--to work as a boy on the farm there--which Matthew and his sister, Marrilla, ran. Matthew went to go pick up the *boy* at the train station and instead found a precocious little red headed Anne Shirley. So begins the wonderful story of how Anne's life was changed--for she had not been sent back to the Orphanage, but was kept, loved and valued and given such opportunities.

This has to be a five star, the artistic value of Montgomery's craft, that can put her little hook into your heart and pull you through the story with laughter, and tears and keep you there to the end of the story.

Here are some links online to read more about issues relating to Anne of Green Gables:
Rare 'Anne of Green Gables' sells for $24,000 US
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2...
Anne of Green Gables author's Ont. home named historic site
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/s...
Coin, stamps to mark 100 years of Anne
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/princ...
History of Prince Edward Island,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

I found opportunity in this reading to learn more about Prince Edward Island, (P.E.I.)in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and who Prince Edward,its namesake, was : Father of Queen Victoria; learning where P.E.I. is located at above Nova Scotia,in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in Canada. ...less

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M. rated it:

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04/19/08

Anne's precocious reading tastes and romantic imagination are similar to what we know of Montgomery's, but Montgomery did not star in a post-girlhood series of sequels in which she marries Gilbert Blythe. Instead, Montgomery went through two serious relationships: an engagement to a man she did not love, and a non-engagement to a man whom she loved passionately but couldn't bring herself to marry because he was an uneducated farmer. The farmer died, after which she renounced her romantic dreams ...more Anne's precocious reading tastes and romantic imagination are similar to what we know of Montgomery's, but Montgomery did not star in a post-girlhood series of sequels in which she marries Gilbert Blythe. Instead, Montgomery went through two serious relationships: an engagement to a man she did not love, and a non-engagement to a man whom she loved passionately but couldn't bring herself to marry because he was an uneducated farmer. The farmer died, after which she renounced her romantic dreams and stayed home to look after her unpleasant grandmother. When she finally did marry, four months after the grandmother's death, she had premonitions of disaster - it's not a good omen to sit at your wedding breakfast feeling that it's your own funeral. Indeed, things did not work very well. Her husband, Ewen MacDonald, was a minister, and Montgomery had to perform the many tedious duties of a minister's wife, for which she was by no means as well suited as the beloved Mrs Allan of Avonlea. But then Ewen began to suffer bouts of something then called "religious melancholia", but which today might be classified as clinical depression or even bipolar disorder, and Montgomery had to devote more and more time to his care. Later in her life, she herself suffered from nervous collapses, and no wonder. "Nobody ever did want me" was a burden imposed on her by her own childhood, and it proved a hard one to overcome. The many fictional worlds she created through her writing were both an escape from and a way of coming to terms with a deep underlying sadness. There's another way of reading Anne of Green Gables, and that's to assume that the true central character is not Anne, but Marilla Cuthbert. Anne herself doesn't really change throughout the book. She grows taller, her hair turns from "carrots" to "a handsome auburn", her clothes get much prettier, due to the spirit of clothes competition she awakens in Marilla, she talks less, though more thoughtfully, but that's about it. As she herself says, she's still the same girl inside. Similarly, Matthew remains Matthew, and Anne's best chum Diana is equally static. Only Marilla unfolds into something unimaginable to us at the beginning of the book. Her growing love for Anne, and her growing ability to express that love - not Anne's duckling-to-swan act - is the real magic transformation. Anne is the catalyst who allows the crisp, rigid Marilla to finally express her long-buried softer human emotions. At the beginning of the book, it's Anne who does all the crying; by the end of it, much of this task has been transferred to Marilla. As Mrs Rachel Lynde says, "Marilla Cuthbert has got mellow. That's what."...less

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03/10/08

bookshelves: classics, young-adult

Read in March, 2008

recommends it for: Everyone in search of a Kindred Spirit

A Kindred Spirit- a Bosom friend.

Every once in a great while a book (or series of books) comes along and while you read you feel like you are finally home.

When I was nine years old my Dad gave me a set of books: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. I’ve treasured them, but never picked them up. How I made it through girlhood without reading these classics is a mystery to me as I now firmly believe that every girl should read Anne. I loved the movies. I still do. I can watch ...more A Kindred Spirit- a Bosom friend.

Every once in a great while a book (or series of books) comes along and while you read you feel like you are finally home.

When I was nine years old my Dad gave me a set of books: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. I’ve treasured them, but never picked them up. How I made it through girlhood without reading these classics is a mystery to me as I now firmly believe that every girl should read Anne. I loved the movies. I still do. I can watch all of them right through- breaking only to use the facilities and restock my junk food.

A week or so ago I looked at them on my shelf and decided that it was high time I read them. To say that I related to Anne is putting it mildly. I more feel like Lucy Maud Montgomery looked forward a hundred years into the future, saw me (and my daughter for that matter) and went back and wrote about me. I feel like the very soul of Anne is so much like me, it’s uncanny. I love her misadventures, her willingness to be bold and fight for a cause, her dramatics, her love for fashion. I love Avonlea. I love Marilla and Matthew- OH MATTHEW!!! And of course I love Gilbert Blythe.

From the minute I picked the book up I laughed and cried aloud. It has been a delightful week. I could have read it faster than I did, but there are so few of the books that I’ve savored it, allowing myself small bits every day- even rereading some of Anne’s most glorious little speeches. About half way through the week I went online and researched L.M. Montgomery. I thrilled to discover that the original manuscript of Anne of Green Gables resides at the University of Guelph (a mere mile from my dad’s house). I can’t wait till August when I’ll get to go see it! And I’m planning a trip to Prince Edward Island to see the house that inspired the Books. Yes, it is a thirteen hour drive from Guelph to PEI but I don’t care!

I finished the first book about an hour ago, flailed myself flat on my face on the floor and just sobbed. Suffice it to say, I loved the book. We’re talking an all time favorite type liking. As Anne would say, I truly feel as if I’ve found a kindred spirit- a bosom friend.
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Franklin rated it:

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05/13/08

Read in June, 2007

To be brutally honest, I was disappointed. I found Anne quite often to be annoying and found my self skimming through many of her rambling soliloquies. Many (especially those of the female gender I suppose) may find her apt to talk ad nauseum to be one of her most enduring qualities, I however did not.

I discovered that it was difficult for me to continue reading once the characters had been established, that is I had no motivation to continue reading as there appeared to be no underlying plo...more

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Becky rated it:

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06/14/08

Montgomery, L.M. 1908. Anne of Green Gables.

I first 'discovered' Anne Shirley through watching the 1985 and 1987 films by Kevin Sullivan/Wonderworks when they aired on my local PBS station. As far as I'm concerned, these two are the ONLY films that are 'real.' Meaning that the monstrosity of a film released in 2000 doesn't exist at all. It's something that should be avoided at all costs. It is evil, evil, pure evil.

It would have been around sixth or seventh grade (1989-1990 or 1990-1991) tha...more

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Hailey rated it:

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02/13/08

Read in January, 2008

recommended to Hailey by: my mom
recommends it for: all ages

Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert are middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island. They decided to adopt a boy from an orphanage in Nova Scotia. They needed him as a helper on their farm. After a series of mistakes they end up with an eleven-year-old girl, named Anne Shirley. Anne is a very smart girl and eager to please but unhappy with her name, her pale skin and freckles, and her long red hair. However, being a child with a great imag...more

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Anne rated it:

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08/09/08

My name is Anne. I remember reading the Anne books, but almost nothing of the content. So this summer, I've decided to read all of them. As I write this review, a half-read Anne of Windy Poplars is staring at me from the couch.

Of the 3.5 that I've read so far, Anne of Green Gables is the most focused. Anne is being brought up, which means there are few chapters that aren't entirely about her, Marilla and Matthew. And Mrs. Rachel Lynde, because she has her business everywhere. But the w...more

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Tania rated it:

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08/02/08

bookshelves: bookcrossing, literary-quotes

Read in August, 2008

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"This is my little girl, Diana," said Mrs Barry. "Diana, you might take Anna out into the garden and show her your flowers. It will be better for you than straining your eyes over that book. She reads entirely too much" - this to Marilla as the little girls went out - "and I can't prevent her, for her father aids and abets her. She's alaways poring over a book. I'm glad she has the prospect of a playmate - perhaps it will take her more out-of-doors.&quo...more

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Christine rated it:

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12/31/07

Read in December, 2007

recommends it for: Lesley

I picked-up a copy of Anne of Green Gables from the Butler Library at Columbia University one evening this November. I was nearing the end of my first semester of graduate school and working very hard on my two final projects. Given my busyness I wanted a gentle read before bed.
I read Anne of Green Gables when I was 12. I was enchanted by Anne Shirley, Diana Barry, and Gilbert Blythe and the rest of the cast of Avonlea characters. I read the the other books in the series and watched ...more

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Andrea rated it:

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07/01/08

Read in May, 2008

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07/03/08

Read in July, 2008

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Ryan rated it:

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07/04/08

Read in June, 2008

I finally did it!! Years ago, MK and I made a deal, I would read her favorite book Anne of Green Gables and she would read mine, Ender's Game. I started hers and made it strong through two-thirds before becoming disillusioned with Anne's many meanderings. MK made it through half of Ender's book before giving up humanity as a doomed cause to the buggers.

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Morgan rated it:

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08/01/08

Read in August, 2008

recommended to Morgan by: Grandma K
recommends it for: children, lovers of nature

I remember growing up on these movies, and truly loving them. And I'm sure I read these books, considering I have copies from my grandma telling me "I hope you enjoy Anne as much as I did at your age." I know, so sweet. So these are a part of my childhood. The bad part? I have a really horrible memory when it comes to my childhood. That being said, there was no real sentimental value to the story itself. Don't get me wrong, it's highly enjoyable. Who wouldn't love the story of ...more

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Erin rated it:

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08/30/07

bookshelves: childrens, favorites, fiction

Read in January, 1986

recommends it for: women, chidlren, sensitive gentlemen

This spawned an entire life and community for me. The first time I read it, I was not so into it. My grandmother saw me reading it and said, "Oh! I loved that book as a girl!" It was written about five years before she was born. (Its 100th anniversary is next year!) A few years later I saw the CBC movie with Megan Follows, and loved the guy that played Gilbert. DREAMBOAT DREAMBOAT DREAMBOAT! At the time I was still a forest nymph and a country girl and an aspiring novelist who loved to...more

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Janice rated it:

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05/28/08

Read in May, 2008

I keep reviewing books too long after I've read them, but here goes...This was mostly charming and adorable. The Anne character is a delightful classic and I loved her antics. The style of writing—beautiful descriptions of the bucolic Prince Edward Island—is just lovely and the dialogue twinkles with humor. The problem comes toward the end when Anne sort of grows up. Who wants Anne the mischief-maker to become somewhat responsible? The fun of the book is that she can't help but get into trou...more

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04/27/08

bookshelves: classics, coming-of-age, myfaves

Read in April, 2008

This is just one of the very best books of all time. Anne is the quintessential little girl from the beginning of the 20th century, and Avonlea seems like a little Canadian country utopia. It's been my dream since I first read these books and watched the series (religiously) to visit Prince Edward Island, and my re-read has reminded me of that dream!

It's such an uplifting book, and you can't help but love all the characters, especially Anne, and wish that life was as simple as it LM Mont...more

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Tracey rated it:

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12/19/07

bookshelves: e-text

Read in April, 2005

Thanks to Memoware.com, I downloaded an e-book version and finished reading it yesterday afternoon.

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are staid, middle-aged siblings, living on a farm in rural Prince Edward Island around the turn of the twentieth century. They decide to adopt an orphan boy to help Matthew with the chores, but are instead sent Ann(e) Shirley, a red-headed, chatty and highly-imaginative young girl. Despite their misgivings, they decide to keep her, and the story follows Anne's tria...more