Anne of Green Gables Published by Bantam Books by L.M. Montgomery
Series: Anne of Green Gables #1
on April 1, 1982
Genres: Fiction, Classics, YA, Children's, Historical, Small Town & Rural
Pages: 308
Source: Purchased
Format: Paperback
Also by this author: Emily of New Moon , Emily Climbs , The Golden Road , Emily's Quest, The Blue Castle, Pat of Silver Bush , Mistress Pat , A Tangled Web, Magic for Marigold, Jane of Lantern Hill, Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939
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ISBN: 055321313X
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As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever . . . but will the Cuthberts send her back to to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected—a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince them to let her stay, she'll try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind. Anne is not like anyone else, the Cuthberts agree; she is special—a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables.
There is no way I can continue to do my Favorite Friday without featuring my all-time favorite book that sparked my love for reading way back in my tween years. This book probably got me through most of my pre-teen years when I really didn’t have much in common with any of the girls my age. This book, introduced the idea of history to me. Where my teachers failed to grab my attention, this book made me want to learn more about simpler times. Which led me to read Shakespeare. Which led me to poetry, and so on and so on… This book really did shape my tastes into what they are today.
Anne of Green Gables has just about everything that I love to read about now. There’s a little bit of suspense (How the HECK is Anne going to get out of THIS scrape?!), there’s romance (Gilbert, my first book crush), drama (Well, c’mon it about a teenage girl!), and even the parental love that pulls on the heartstrings. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert can’t help but fall in love with the little precocious, redheaded orphan, and neither can the reader. If you haven’t read this book, you need to. It’s one of those books that will stay with you. Always. It’s one of those books that when I was twelve, I knew, if I ever had daughters, I would someday want them to read it. Now, they’re two and I can’t wait to share this with them.
About L.M. Montgomery
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 in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926.
Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
