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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables #1)
"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
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Mass Market Paperback, Special Collector's Edition, 314 pages
Published
May 1st 1982
by Bantam Books (Classics)
(first published 1908)
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I would recommend it for girls of any age.
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Feb 27, 2009
Shannon
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Strong Girls or those are raising them
Recommended to Shannon by:
Mikkee, Tiana
I don't often give books five stars and as I neared the end of this book, I gave some thought to how many stars this book deserved. I've read the Anne of Green Gables series once before - over twenty years ago. In spite of the amount of time that has elapsed, I clearly recall reading the last book in the series very slowly and thinking to myself, "I will be so sad to not be able to read about Anne anymore." When I picked up this book a few days ago to re-read it, I found within a few chapters th
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Dec 31, 2016
Jessica ❁ ➳ Silverbow ➳ ❁ Rabid Reads
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4.5 stars
Anne, my lovely, I feel restored.
Anne, my lovely, I feel restored.
"Marilla!" Anne sat down on Marilla's gingham lap, took Marilla's lined face between her hands, and looked gravely and tenderly into Marilla's eyes. "I'm not a bit changed—not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me—back here—is just the same. It won't make a bit of difference where I go or how much I change outwardly; at heart I shall always be your little Anne, who will love you and Matthew and dear Green Gables more and bette...more
I never read Anne's story when I was younger, so when I heard that Rachel McAdams was narrating the first in the series I knew I had to give it a go. I'm a sucker for a celebrity-narrated audiobook (if you haven't checked out Maggie Gyllenhaal's reading of The Bell Jar, do that now!).
It's wonderful to read a story that, for the most part, is extremely uplifting. There's hardly anything truly terrible that happens in this story, and that's quite refreshing. Granted, it is a children's novel and ...more
It's wonderful to read a story that, for the most part, is extremely uplifting. There's hardly anything truly terrible that happens in this story, and that's quite refreshing. Granted, it is a children's novel and ...more
"Dear old world," she murmured, "you are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you."
This quote really accurately depicts how Anne lives her life and what makes you love her as a character. She's stubborn and makes mistakes, but she also has a huge imagination and sees the world as beautiful and full of possibilities.
I loved this SO much and I'm sad I never read it before! I love all the characters and the plot, and it's really fun to see Anne grow up through this book. The writing is also rea ...more
This quote really accurately depicts how Anne lives her life and what makes you love her as a character. She's stubborn and makes mistakes, but she also has a huge imagination and sees the world as beautiful and full of possibilities.
I loved this SO much and I'm sad I never read it before! I love all the characters and the plot, and it's really fun to see Anne grow up through this book. The writing is also rea ...more
I had to read this for class and really enjoyed it! Anne was my favorite character, obviously, followed very closely behind by the sweet Matthew. I grew up watching the live action movies and was obsessed with it, so I'm happy I got around to reading it!
Finally: Full review written December 17th, 2013 and edited the 19th:)
***5 beautiful "Kindred Spirits" stars!!***
Sighs...Anne of Green Gables and her crazy doings will forever stay in my heart <3. Can there be such a crazy, beautiful, kindred spirit soul as Anne? No, I do not think so (there are two exceptions: Miranda Cheever and Penelope :D). This precious book is the first out of the many books in the Anne of Green Gables series.
I think many of you know what Anne of Green Gables is about ...more
***5 beautiful "Kindred Spirits" stars!!***
Sighs...Anne of Green Gables and her crazy doings will forever stay in my heart <3. Can there be such a crazy, beautiful, kindred spirit soul as Anne? No, I do not think so (there are two exceptions: Miranda Cheever and Penelope :D). This precious book is the first out of the many books in the Anne of Green Gables series.
I think many of you know what Anne of Green Gables is about ...more
Apr 27, 2008
Samantha Penrose
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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," said Anne confidently, "I've made up ...more
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," said Anne confidently, "I've made up ...more
I read half of this when I was a kid, but for some reason I never finished it! I'll definitely pick it up again someday....
This was my first time reading "Anne of Green Gables" and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is a children's book, and so I was expecting a story with a lovely protagonist and some lovely and educating morals, and that's what I got. Anne is simply lovable from the very beginning where she's being fetched by Matthew on the train station to come live in Green Gables. She's highly enthousiastic about everything from the trees to the birds and the brook, and sometimes she was a bit too enthousiastic for
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Yup! Just as good as the last two times! <3
"I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic."
A series of letters.
Dear Jo (aged 11),
Get off The Sims and pick up a copy of Anne of Green Gables and read it now. It will change your life.
Best wishes,
Jo (aged 22)
Dear Ms Montgomery,
I would like to take your beautiful prose and drape it over the washing line in my back garden to create a mystical den that only I and my friends may enter.
Who would I have to talk to for this to happen?
Thank you in adva ...more
A series of letters.
Dear Jo (aged 11),
Get off The Sims and pick up a copy of Anne of Green Gables and read it now. It will change your life.
Best wishes,
Jo (aged 22)
Dear Ms Montgomery,
I would like to take your beautiful prose and drape it over the washing line in my back garden to create a mystical den that only I and my friends may enter.
Who would I have to talk to for this to happen?
Thank you in adva ...more
قرأت نسخة مختصرة، لأن العمر أقصر من أن أحيط بكل الروايات الكلاسيكية السابقة التي فاتتني, وأنا أريد فعلاً أن ألم بهم. لذا فالتقييم سيكون أقل مما قد تجده في النسخ الكاملة من القصص.
آن في التلة الخضراء، للكاتبة الكندية لوسي مود مونتجمري
"بطلة حكاياتنا الفتاة التي تخجل شعرها الأحمر, آن"
فتاة نحيلة بسلوك بري
فقدت والداها وهي صغيرة, ثم تنقلت بين العديد من البيوت
لتستقر في سنتها العاشرة وسط زوجان استقبلاها بالخطأ
الزوجان كان يريدان فتى ليساعدهما
ولكن عندما ارسلت الفتاة
لم يستطيعا إرجاعها, ولعلها تغنيهم عن ال ...more
آن في التلة الخضراء، للكاتبة الكندية لوسي مود مونتجمري
"بطلة حكاياتنا الفتاة التي تخجل شعرها الأحمر, آن"
فتاة نحيلة بسلوك بري
فقدت والداها وهي صغيرة, ثم تنقلت بين العديد من البيوت
لتستقر في سنتها العاشرة وسط زوجان استقبلاها بالخطأ
الزوجان كان يريدان فتى ليساعدهما
ولكن عندما ارسلت الفتاة
لم يستطيعا إرجاعها, ولعلها تغنيهم عن ال ...more
Oct 24, 2016
Cait • A Page with a View
rated it
it was amazing
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favorites,
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Never have I ever related more to a fictional character than Anne. This is just the most adorable, heartwarming book ever and I honestly don't think I ever read it before this week! I have the movies practically memorized and they follow the books perfectly, so there was nothing terribly new in this story. The only obvious difference was that Gilbert isn't in the book as much.
But seeing Anne ramble on and on for pages more than made up for that. I just have to stick some of my favorite quotes i ...more
But seeing Anne ramble on and on for pages more than made up for that. I just have to stick some of my favorite quotes i ...more
She danced up to the little looking-glass and peered into it. Her pointed freckled face and solemn gray eyes peered back at her.
“You’re only Anne of Green Gables,” she said earnestly, “and I see you, just as you are looking now, whenever I try to imagine I’m the Lady Cordelia. But it’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?”
I'm so overjoyed to have finally read this. I've set my mind on reading more classics from now on, and I'll defini ...more
When I read Anne of Green Gables I was admitted into the world of orphan Anne Shirley and her life in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I fell in love with her and her adoptive parents, brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, her meddling neighbor, and Gilbert Blythe, who would become Anne's lifelong love, were also introduced early in this book, the first of eight novels telling the life story of Anne Shirley. I've read every one and it remains one of my favorite series.
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Dec 23, 2015
Ingela
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Every young girl I know
Loved by me, 5 BIG Stars
Amazing Anne Shirley you should be a role model for many girls. Brave, strong willed and with such great dreams and big imagination.
Gilbert Blythe was perhaps my first Book Boyfriend. Oh sweet, I was in love. Lovely, lovely Anne and Gilbert, what a good and nice young lovestory. Everything in this book series are wonderful. Then there's the great TV series.*) I loved it all ... and still do.
I LIKE - enormously when I was young...
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*) The fun and wonderf ...more
Amazing Anne Shirley you should be a role model for many girls. Brave, strong willed and with such great dreams and big imagination.
Gilbert Blythe was perhaps my first Book Boyfriend. Oh sweet, I was in love. Lovely, lovely Anne and Gilbert, what a good and nice young lovestory. Everything in this book series are wonderful. Then there's the great TV series.*) I loved it all ... and still do.
I LIKE - enormously when I was young...
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*) The fun and wonderf ...more
Mar 22, 2013
Maggie
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Recommended to Maggie by:
Noelle
DRAMATIS PERSONAE ...................................... Anne Shirley
It's not often that a book lives up to its public-shaming-if-you-haven't-read hype. This book lives up to its 104 YEAR HYPE. I almost divorced my childhood for not reading this then. So many of the words that describe Anne are ones that too many girls are running away from today -- imaginative, impertinent, outspoken, smart, driven. If you have a problem with them, you can take it up with the slate being cracked over your head. ...more
It's not often that a book lives up to its public-shaming-if-you-haven't-read hype. This book lives up to its 104 YEAR HYPE. I almost divorced my childhood for not reading this then. So many of the words that describe Anne are ones that too many girls are running away from today -- imaginative, impertinent, outspoken, smart, driven. If you have a problem with them, you can take it up with the slate being cracked over your head. ...more
Jan 10, 2012
Lora
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liked it
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Recommends it for:
fans of children's classics
Recommended to Lora by:
Jo
Shelves:
lib-audiobooks,
classics
Anne of Green Gables is the story of a young orphaned girl named, you guessed it, Anne. Born in Nova Scotia only to lose both of her parents from the fever at the age of three months, Anne has grown up in many households, never being able to stay in one place for long. As you can imagine, this has left young Anne feeling needy and unwanted.
And when siblings Marilla and Matthew decide to adopt a boy to help work on their farm, they never expect to get a girl instead. Naturally, their first instin ...more
And when siblings Marilla and Matthew decide to adopt a boy to help work on their farm, they never expect to get a girl instead. Naturally, their first instin ...more
Aug 10, 2015
Melki
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it was amazing
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fiction-favorites,
girl-power
"Well now, she's a real interesting little thing," persisted Matthew.
Truer words were never spoken when the whirlwind known as Anne Shirley comes to live with siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at Green Gables.
In one terrific example of cosmic trickery, the Cuthberts, who were hoping to adopt a boy to help out around the farm, are sent instead a garrulous and imaginative, red-headed girl. Matthew takes to her immediately. Marilla needs some convincing.
"Matthew Cuthbert, you don't mean to say ...more
Truer words were never spoken when the whirlwind known as Anne Shirley comes to live with siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at Green Gables.
In one terrific example of cosmic trickery, the Cuthberts, who were hoping to adopt a boy to help out around the farm, are sent instead a garrulous and imaginative, red-headed girl. Matthew takes to her immediately. Marilla needs some convincing.
"Matthew Cuthbert, you don't mean to say ...more
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 plot to ...more
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 plot to ...more
My daughter loved this book over the summer, one of the classics I’ve never read and it’s now firmly on my To Read list. JS
***Wanda’s Summer Carnival of Children’s Literature***
Finally, I met Anne of Green Gables. Honestly, it’s taken me so long that I’m surprised my Canadian citizenship hasn’t been revoked. (I never watched the TV show, either). I don’t know the source of my prejudice against the tale, but it was unwarranted. I quite enjoyed Anne with an E. It is definitely a tale of an earlier time in Canadian history.
Actually, in many ways it reminded me of stories that my parents told of the one-room school hous ...more
Finally, I met Anne of Green Gables. Honestly, it’s taken me so long that I’m surprised my Canadian citizenship hasn’t been revoked. (I never watched the TV show, either). I don’t know the source of my prejudice against the tale, but it was unwarranted. I quite enjoyed Anne with an E. It is definitely a tale of an earlier time in Canadian history.
Actually, in many ways it reminded me of stories that my parents told of the one-room school hous ...more
May 02, 2016
Dannii Elle
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I fully expected to love this book as it is such a treasured childhood favourite for so many people, but what I did not foresee was how beautiful and poignant the writing would be and how much I would fall in love with Anne. She reminds me so much of myself at her age with her wild imagination, talkative and outgoing nature and a knack for getting herself, inadvertently, in all sorts of scrapes. The plot was simplistic and ordered so that each chapter could read as its own self-contained short s
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Let me just say up front: I loved this book.
I tried reading this when I was young, and I couldn't get into it. I was fairly prejudiced against it as well, because apparently I fancied myself to be some great judge of literature at 8 years old, and any time this book was mentioned I'd start right up with the "Oh, I couldn't get into that book... it's boring..." spiel and just write it off completely.
Luckily, a combination of factors converged at the right moment in time to allow for me to put a ...more
I tried reading this when I was young, and I couldn't get into it. I was fairly prejudiced against it as well, because apparently I fancied myself to be some great judge of literature at 8 years old, and any time this book was mentioned I'd start right up with the "Oh, I couldn't get into that book... it's boring..." spiel and just write it off completely.
Luckily, a combination of factors converged at the right moment in time to allow for me to put a ...more
On Saturday, I found out Jonathan Crombie (Gilbert Blythe) had passed away of a brain hemorrhage. While I never wanted to marry him, I loved everything he stood for in the Anne books--truth, love, faithfulness--one of those Jimmy Bean type heroes that never do anything stunning, but prove by their uprightness in family and community that providing for their hearth fire is the most worthy calling they could think of. I loved his grin, and his 'soorry' and his teasing.
So today, in memory of his s ...more
So today, in memory of his s ...more
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
Now, I will admit that I was actually introduced to “Anne of Green Gables” through the animated TV series that used to come on PBS and I remembered liking this TV series when I was little. Now, I finally had the chance to actually read L.M. Montgomery’s all-time classic book “Anne of Green Gables” and I was surely not disappointed with the results!
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert wanted ...more
4.75 stars (weird rating I know, there's a reason)
"..Diana puts too many murders into hers (stories she writes). She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."
Also known as: how most authors write fiction.
Anne of Green Gables is considered a Canadian Classic novel so it's pretty much blasphemous that I hadn't read it before now. Honestly, it's a book I've always known about, but not a book I thought of. But my best friend Ashlynn ...more
"..Diana puts too many murders into hers (stories she writes). She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."
Also known as: how most authors write fiction.
Anne of Green Gables is considered a Canadian Classic novel so it's pretty much blasphemous that I hadn't read it before now. Honestly, it's a book I've always known about, but not a book I thought of. But my best friend Ashlynn ...more
An Enchanting and Spellbinding Story of Childhood
There is something enchanting in the innocence of children and their extraordinary imaginations. We follow Anne, a hot-tempered, fiery, passionate, and highly imaginative girl, on her adventures on a small island in Canada.
It doesn't matter how old you are, this book will touch you. The magic of this book is in the imperfections, trials, and tribulations of our protagonist Anne. The reader follows her on her adventures and mishaps, with much lau ...more
There is something enchanting in the innocence of children and their extraordinary imaginations. We follow Anne, a hot-tempered, fiery, passionate, and highly imaginative girl, on her adventures on a small island in Canada.
It doesn't matter how old you are, this book will touch you. The magic of this book is in the imperfections, trials, and tribulations of our protagonist Anne. The reader follows her on her adventures and mishaps, with much lau ...more
Nov 16, 2010
Sonia Gomes
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Recommends it for:
those who like the simple things in life
Recommended to Sonia by:
Gutenberg e-books
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I loved Anne, really loved her. I have read reviews which say that Anne (spelled with an e !)is silly, vain, hot-tempered. Oh yes, she is all that and much more. Anne is a human being brimming with dreams and most of all ready to enjoy life, not in a jaded fashion, but how it should be enjoyed, she loves every tiny fern, every little flower, even puffed sleeves! Her capacity to enjoy life is amazing. That is what Mathew must have seen when he was taking a skinny, redhead girl 'home' A tempest ha
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Simply rating L.M. Montgomery's's Anne of Green Gables is (for me at least) ridiculously easy (five well deserved stars, and a permanent residence on my favourites shelf). That being said, and unfortunately, posting an actual review is proving both daunting and exceedingly difficult, for how do I review a favourite both childhood and adulthood comfort read in a way that is even remotely adequate, that not only shows my deep and lasting appreciation of and for Anne of Green Gables (and L.M. Montg
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Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.
The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 ...more
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The author of the famous Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911 ...more
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