Anne of Green Gables

Paperback

English language

Published Dec. 1, 2002 by Langensch.-Hachette, M.

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4 stars (101 reviews)

Orphan Anne Shirley has always relied on her imagination to help her. Now she is being sent to Avonlea to live with the Cuthberts. Where she slowly wins their hearts. With new friends and her imagination to liven things up there is no telling where Anne will go!

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reviewed Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Puffin classics)

A Special Place in my Heart

5 stars

My mother was a teenager when she gave birth to me. She read this book while she was pregnant and, when I was born, she named me after the protagonist. Anne with an "E". I first read this book when I was nine years old, sitting in a car during a rainstorm. I started in the morning and finished just as it was getting dark and my mother called me inside. I've read it many times since, along with the entire series. It gave me a safe world to live in. I love them all.

reviewed Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Review of 'Anne of Green Gables' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I have to say this is a magnificent young adult novel. We (my wife & I) 'listened' to it on our latest drive across country (New York to Colorado). The writing (language use), characters, and story are wonderful. It is easy to understand why this is a classic. I highly recommend it for numerous reasons not the least of which is its incredibly positive portrayal of women, introversion and family love.

reviewed Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Review of 'Anne of Green Gables' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I got so much more than I expected! But it might have helped that (mostly) I expected saccharin and that's pretty much it. Anne avoided two irksome lit traps that I was ready to jump on.

First, there's the main character that everyone loves and by whom everyone is amazed, the author hoping to convince the reader to love this character because all of these surrogates do. I was convinced that Montgomery was going to try this tack early, as I found Anne more bothersome than winning, despite the initial reaction of the secondary characters. She avoids this first trap, I think, because of the successful navigation of the second.

The second being, the main character is really only a two-dimensional foil challenging all other characters to evolve to suit. For example, every Shirley Temple film. Yes, the presence of Anne in the lives of the Avonlea characters is transformative. …

reviewed Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Review of 'Anne of Green Gables' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I just loved this book! Excuse me while I pack my stuff to live on Prince Edward Island.

The characters, the setting--it was great. Anne is whimsical, and eccentric, and lovable. She's a whirlwind of ideas, and drama, and fun. Matthew and Marilla are the balance she needs, and she is the balance they need. It's funny, and sad, and just a true delight. Now I'm caught up in Avonlea and will be headed back to visit in the next book of the series.

reviewed Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Review of 'Anne of Green Gables' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I never read this as a kid -- kind of odd because it forms a natural class with Little Women, The Secret Garden, A Girl of the Limberlost, and the Little House books, all of which I read over and over.

Very briefly: what a charming book. I'm so sad it took me this long to get to it.

A jumble of observations:

1. I like Anne. Out there in the wilds of the internet she often gets called a Mary Sue, but it's not clear to me that she actually is. She has many qualities we value today -- imaginative, creative, friendly, outgoing, generous, kind, readerly, independent, intelligent, outdoorsy, slender (no matter how you feel about it, our culture does value thinness) -- but how many of those qualities were valued in children in 1900? I don't know enough about the sociocultural norms of the period to say. I …

reviewed Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Review of 'Anne of Green Gables' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

The Anne of Green Gables series is still charming and amusing today. The story of a red-headed orphan girl accidentally adopted by the elderly Cuthberts (brother and sister) who wanted a boy to help on the farm, and the troubles she and her vivid imagination get herself into. The characters are real and truly likeable and never unbelieveably perfect as is the case in many young adult books of the period. Besides being charming and entertaining, the books are a wonderful and accurate portrait of life in a small Canadian town at the start of the 1900s (and during the heartbreak of WWI in the final book, Rilla of Ingleside). I'm always happy to reread this series.

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