Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables S.)

by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of the Island

by
L.M. Montgomery

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11,341 ratings, 4.16 average rating, 402 reviews (more data...)

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published

January 7th 1993 by Bantam Juvenile (first published 1915)

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Paperback, 243 pages

characters

Anne Shirley, Diana Barry, Gilbert Blythe

isbn

0553406213 (isbn13: 9780553406214)

description

Anne's college years

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Nov 19, 2009

miaaa rated it:

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Pernah ada yang bilang, paling tidak enak jadi anak tengah.

Anak tertua selalu menjadi pusat perhatian. Orang tua biasanya menuntut tanggungjawab, semacam supervisor kali yah, untuk adik-adiknya. Dan dalam beberapa kasus nilai pelajaran dan pencapaian lain, dijadikan standar yang harus dilewati oleh adik-adiknya.

Anak bungsu menjadi pusat perhatian untuk alasan berbeda. Lahir paling akhir, bungsu cenderung menjadi always be the baby of the family. Setiap orang berusaha mem...more

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Feb 22, 2009

Nila rated it:

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Read in February, 2009

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Di buku ketiga ini, berkisah tentang kehidupan sewaktu Anne kuliah di Redmond Collage. Jadi anak kos, kemudian kontrak rumah Patty's Place bersama teman-teman lamanya dari Queens , Priscilla & Stella, dan teman baru Phillippa Gordon si anak gaul.

Semakin dewasa, imajinasi Anne semakin berkurang, beruntung masih ada Davy. Dengan pernyataan2 dan pertanyaan2 dari logika polosnya, saya jadi semakin sayang Davy, dibandingkan dibuku sebelumnya dimana tingkahnya cenderung merusak. Kemati...more

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Feb 20, 2009

Sylvia rated it:

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Read in March, 2009

Book three!

Kehidupan kampus

Buku ketiga ini menceritakan kehidupan Anne selama belajar di kampus. Pengalaman dia datang ke suatu tempat, sebagai anak baru, kikuk gak tau harus ngapain, digambarin dengan asik. Untungnya Anne ada temennya Priscilla, jadi masih ada temen grogi. Trus mereka kost di sebuah rumah yang pemiliknya gila bantal. Dimana-mana bantal, tapi nggak boleh didudukin! Stress gak sih? Lalu mereka nemu rumah yg asik buat di kontrak rame-rame, dan pindahlah Ann...more

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Sep 21, 2008

Becky rated it:

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Read in October, 2008

Montgomery, L.M. 1915. Anne of the Island.

"Harvest is ended and summer is gone," quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily.

I don't know if there are enough words to describe how I feel about Anne of the Island. It is one of the most magically, wonderful, giddy-making, purely-delightful, satisfying books I've ever read...and reread...and reread. Reading this book makes all the world seem right. (At least during the reading process.) It picks up...more Montgomery, L.M. 1915. Anne of the Island.

"Harvest is ended and summer is gone," quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily.

I don't know if there are enough words to describe how I feel about Anne of the Island. It is one of the most magically, wonderful, giddy-making, purely-delightful, satisfying books I've ever read...and reread...and reread. Reading this book makes all the world seem right. (At least during the reading process.) It picks up shortly after where Anne of Avonlea leaves off. Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe are preparing to go off to Redmond college. (Along with Charlie Sloane and Priscilla Grant who you may or may not remember.) Diana Barry is engaged to Fred Wright. And there is a hint of love in the air.

This is the story of Anne's college years; it spans four years. The books focus on her friendships with Priscilla Grant, Philippa Gordon, and Stella Maynard, her roommates. And of course the book focuses on her romantic-and-not-so-romantic dealings with men. Many men propose to Anne during the course of the book including Billy Andrews--who sends his sister in his place--and Sam Toliver with his bumbling, "Will yeh heve me?" (Charlie Sloane, Gilbert Blythe, and Royal Gardner are others.)

There are many side stories in Anne of The Island. And while these little asides and tangents are not employed much in modern fiction, within the works of L.M. Montgomery, they are so thoroughly charming that they just work well. Really really well.

I loved this one. Loved the romance. Loved the characters. Loved everything.

Here's my favorite bit of the book:

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. Anne read hers that bitter night, as she kept her agonized vigil through the hours of storm and darkness. She loved Gilbert—had always loved him! She knew that now. She knew that she could no more cast him out of her life without agony than she could have cut off her right hand and cast it from her. And the knowledge had come too late—too late even for the bitter solace of being with him at the last. If she had not been so blind—so foolish—she would have had the right to go to him now. But he would never know that she loved him—he would go away from this life thinking that she did not care. Oh, the black years of emptiness stretching before her! She could not live through them—she could not! She cowered down by her window and wished, for the first time in her gay young life, that she could die, too. If Gilbert went away from her, without one word or sign or message, she could not live. Nothing was of any value without him. She belonged to him and he to her. In her hour of supreme agony she had no doubt of that. He did not love Christine Stuart—never had loved Christine Stuart. Oh, what a fool she had been not to realize what the bond was that had held her to Gilbert—to think that the flattered fancy she had felt for Roy Gardner had been love. And now she must pay for her folly as for a crime. (237)

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Jul 01, 2008

Andrea rated it:

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Read in June, 2008

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Oct 09, 2007

Chelsea rated it:

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Read in January, 1998

My sentimental favorite of the Anne series. I always thought college was going to be just like that - my best friends, a cute little house in a great neighborhood, and my childhood friend, madly in love with me. Anne is one of my favorite literary heroines, and I liked her transition between girlhood and adulthood. She's grown out of classic Anne of Green Gables, but she's still the same person.

I must have read this book 30 times, and it never gets any less fun. It's one of my to...more

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Nov 20, 2008

3m rated it:

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There was nobody else — there never could be anybody else for me but you. I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

I’m so glad I’m finally getting around to reading this series. I enjoyed the first two Anne books, and this one was no exception. This one is about Anne’s college years, her relationship with her friends Priscilla and Philippa, and also about her beaux Gilbert and Royal.

Spoilers ahead, but it probably doesn...more

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Feb 16, 2010

Rachel rated it:

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Not as great as the first book...honestly it should have ended there. Now it's getting a little too draggy for moi... It's set in an era where if you aren't married early, everyone just knows you're going to die alone, and most of the plot and almost all its characters revolve around that.

I'd recommend it to only the truest of Anne Shirley fans, **spoiler alert**
because the waiting, and waiting, and...etc for Anne to realize what an impossible person she is, is a lot to suffer...more

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Aug 13, 2009

Indah Wd rated it:

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Again, nih buku sebenernya udah ngga pantas dikategorikan sebagai buku anak karena khaaann.. tokoh ceritanya udah 20 tahun di akhir cerita, huahahaha..

Tapii.. cueks aja aaahh :p

Ini buku ke-3 dari seri Anne of Green Gables and I still love love LOVE Anne!!

Untung pas kemaren ini ke Emporium Pluit, ternyata buku ke-3 ini udah diterjemahin, horee, soalnya gua nyari yang versi English ngga dapet, huhuhu..

And buku terjemahannya ini yang pasti :

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Dec 14, 2008

Melody rated it:

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Read in December, 2008

When I first joined GoodReads, I went through and marked a lot of childhood favorites with the number of stars I remembered them earning from me. I reflexively marked all the Anne books with lots of stars. I've long had a soft spot for Anne, and I know I read this series several times as a kid. Had you asked me last month, I would have professed to loving the entire series. Then I embarked on a project to revisit them, and oh how sorry I am that I did. The first book was a delight. The second, n...more

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Jul 04, 2009

Bridget rated it:

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Read in July, 2009

recommends it for: Anne of Green Gables fans

Last year, I joined an online group reading the Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery. I read Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, and loved them both, but didn't get to the third volume until now.

In this volume, Anne Shirley (the heroine) is a college student at Redmond College in Nova Scotia. Some of her friends from home are also attending school there, so she is not totally on her own. The book covers the years of her schooling there, and as in the other books, h...more

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Dec 17, 2009

drama queen rated it:

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Gemes gemes gimana baca buku Anne yang ke 3 ini, Anne yang beranjak dewasa sudah menimati masa kuliahnya, tetap dengan kenaifannya yang kadang ga masuk akal, tapi yah itulah Anne.

Bab awal yang menceritakan Anne masuk kuliah dan cari tempat tinggal baru, bertemu teman baru mengingatkan saya saat pertama kali hijrah ke Surabaya. Kaget juga Lucy Montgomery bisa melukiskan perasaan seorang gadis dengan suka dukanya awal kuliah. Ternyata kuliah di Redmont ama di Unair ga jauh beda, hihi.....more

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Oct 20, 2009

JoLee rated it:

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In Anne of the Island Anne goes to college. What I found really interesting about this book is how similar Anne's experiences at college were to my own almost 100 years later. Anne lives with a group of roommates who are her good friends. She studies and dates. She, of course, has a live-in chaperon, which I did not. One thing that bugged me about this book is how many proposals Anne gets and rejects. Sure, Anne Shirley is great and all, but must every guy like her? I kind of wish that th...more

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Dec 19, 2008

Patti rated it:

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Jul 09, 2009

Cyn0514 rated it:

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Aug 31, 2009

Megan Larson rated it:

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Read in September, 2009

When I get to heaven, I want to meet Lucy Maud Montgomery! What insight the woman had, and what depth. I loved the first book for its tenderness and vitality, the second for its insight and humor. This book had all of those things, but added something more--tremendous depth. I believe the theme of this book is maturity, and the old characters as well as some new ones gain and display this quality without making the book at all dry or humorless--it is quite the opposite. Of course, there are...more

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Nov 15, 2009

Alicia Nakao rated it:

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Read in November, 2009

I think I'm beginning to see how they made the second movie. It seems they took events from the second, third and forth books and put them together so that the end of the third book is how the second movie ends, but now what I'm reading in the forth book is at the beginning of the second movie. Confusing. The funny thing is, while I enjoy all the extra characters and events of the books, my favorite moments from the movies are the ones that are the most changed. Some of Gilbert's best lines,...more

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Aug 09, 2009

Erin rated it:

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Read in August, 2009

This is my favorite book in the entire series. There are just so many amazing characters in it. It makes me wish I would have gone away to college instead of attending the local state college. Anne meets Phillipa Gordon, a girl anyone would like to have for a friend. She and Priscilla and Stella and Phil rent a house together in Kingsport and have no end of "good time jamborees".
There are also a lot of little romances in this novel. Diana marries Fred and Anne must be hostes...more

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Aug 09, 2009

Weni rated it:

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Read in August, 2009

Apa mau dikata, saya mencintai kisah Anne Shirley sejak buku pertama :D

Anne akhirnya kuliah di Redmond. Ia pun hijrah ke Kingsport, meninggalkan Green Gables dan desa Avonlea tercintanya. Di Redmond Anne tidak sendiri, ada Priscilla, Gilbert dan juga Charlie. Anne dan Priscilla lalu berkenalan dengan gadis cantik, kaya dan plin plan bernama Philippa Gordon. Mereka pun menjadi sahabat. Kedatangan Stella sebagai sahabat baru membuat mereka sepakat untuk menyewa rumah dan tinggal bersam...more

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Dec 29, 2008

Jessica rated it:

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Read in December, 2008

Anne of the Island picks up directly where Anne of Avonlea left off. Anne has decided to go to college for her B.A. She heads off to Redmond and has a lively first year with Priscilla, Gilbert, Charlie, and newcomer Phillippa Gordon. Anne faces some challenges - being away from Avonlea, a changing relationship with Diana, and numerous proposals - but she is up to the challenge. Anne is older and wiser, but still delightfully naive.

I loved this installment of the Anne books. I notice...more

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