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"Thanks be, Im done with geometry, learning or teaching it," said Anne Shirley, a trifle vindictively, as she thumped a somewhat battered volume of Euclid into a big chest of books, banged the lid in triumph, and sat down upon it, looking at Diana Wright across the Green Gables garret, with gray eyes that were like a morning sky.The garret was a shadowy, suggestive, delightful place, as all garrets should be. Through the open window, by which Anne sat, blew the sweet, scented, sun-warm air of the August afternoon; outside, poplar boughs rustled and tossed in the wind; beyond them were the woods, where Lovers Lane wound its enchanted path, and the old apple orchard which still bore its rosy harvests munificently. And, over all, was a great mountain range of snowy clouds in the blue southern sky. Through the other window was glimpsed a distant, white-capped, blue seathe beautiful St. Lawrence Gulf, on which floats, like a jewel, Abegweit, whose softer, sweeter Indian name has long been forsaken for the more prosaic one of Prince Edward Island.

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lyndes Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lyndes door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.

It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living-room at Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction hovering about her like an aura; it was four oclock and Susan, who had been working incessantly since six that morning, felt that she had fairly earned an hour of repose and gossip. Susan just then was perfectly happy; everything had gone almost uncannily well in the kitchen that day. Dr. Jekyll had not been Mr. Hyde and so had not grated on her nerves; from where she sat she could see the pride of her heartthe bed of peonies of her own planting and culture, blooming as no other peony plot in Glen St. Mary ever did or could bloom, with peonies crimson, peonies silvery pink, peonies white as drifts of winter snow.

A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages. The Virgil soon slipped unheeded to the ground, and Anne, her chin propped on her clasped hands, and her eyes on the splendid mass of fluffy clouds that were heaping up just over Mr. J. A. Harrisons house like a great white mountain, was far away in a delicious world where a certain schoolteacher was doing a wonderful work, shaping the destinies of future statesmen, and inspiring youthful minds and hearts with high and lofty ambitions.

The book begins with Anne and Gilberts wedding, which takes place in the Green Gables orchard. After the wedding, they move to their first home together, which Anne calls their "house of dreams." Gilbert finds them a small house on the seashore at Four Winds Point, an area near the village of Glen St. Mary, where he is to take over his uncles medical practice.In Four Winds, Anne and Gilbert meet many interesting people, such as Captain Jim, a former sailor who is now the keeper of the lighthouse, and Miss Cornelia Bryant, an unmarried woman in her 40s who lives alone in an emerald-green house and deems the Blythes part of "the race that knows Joseph." Anne also meets her new neighbor, Leslie Moore, who lost her beloved brother and her father, and then was forced by her mother to marry the mean-spirited and unscrupulous Dick Moore at age 16. She felt free for a year or so after Dick disappeared on a sea voyage, but Captain Jim happened upon him in Cuba and brought him home, amnesiac, brain-damaged and generally helpless, and now dependent on Leslie like a "big baby." Leslie becomes friends with Anne, but is sometimes bitter towards her because she is so happy and free, when Leslie can never have what Anne does.Annes former guardian Marilla visits her occasionally and still plays an important role in her life. Marilla is present when Anne gives birth to her first child, Joyce, who dies shortly after birth (as Montgomerys second son did). After the babys death, Anne and Leslie become closer as Leslie feels that Anne now understands tragedy and painas Leslie puts it, her happiness, although still great, is no longer perfect, so there is less of a gulf between them.Later in the story, Leslie rents a room in her house to a writer named Owen Ford, who is the grandson of the former owners of Annes House of Dreams, the Selywns. Owen, who is looking to write the Great Canadian Novel, finds the inspiration he was looking for in Captain Jims shipboard diary, and transforms it into "The Life-Book of Captain Jim." While Owen is finishing the novel, he and Leslie independently realize they have feelings for each other, but both know they cannot do anything about them. Owen leaves the Island and Leslie is even more miserable being trapped in her marriage to Dick...

Anne is about to start her first term teaching at the Avonlea school, although she will still continue her studies at home with Gilbert, who is teaching at the nearby White Sands School. The book soon introduces Annes new and problematic neighbor, Mr. Harrison, and his foul-mouthed parrot, as well as the twins, Davy and Dora. They are the children of Marillas third cousin and she takes them in when their mother dies while their uncle is out of the country. Dora is a nice, well-behaved girl, somewhat boring in her perfect behaviour. Davy is Doras exact opposite, much more of a handful and constantly getting into many scrapes. They are initially meant to stay only a short time, but the twins uncle postpones his return to collect the twins and then eventually dies. Both Anne and Marilla are relieved (Marilla inwardly of course) to know the twins will remain with her.Other characters introduced are some of Annes new pupils, such as Paul Irving, an American boy living with his grandmother in Avonlea while his widower father works in the States. He delights Anne with his imagination and whimsical ways, which are reminiscent of Annes in her childhood. Later in the book, Anne and her friends meet Miss Lavendar Lewis, a sweet but lonely lady in her 40s who had been engaged to Pauls father 25 years before, but parted from him after a disagreement. At the end of the book, Mr. Irving returns and he and Miss Lavendar marry.Anne discovers the delights and troubles of being a teacher, takes part in the raising of Davy and Dora, and organizes the A.V.I.S. (Avonlea Village Improvement Society) together with Gilbert, Diana, and Fred Wright, though their efforts to improve the town are not always successful. The Society takes up a subscription to repaint an old town hall, only to have the painter provide the wrong color of paint, turning the hall into a bright blue eyesore.Towards the end of the book, Mrs. Rachel Lyndes husband dies and Mrs. Lynde moves in with Marilla at Green Gables, allowing Anne to go to college at last. She and Gilbert make plans to attend Redmond College in the fall.This book sees Anne maturing slightly, even though she still cannot avoid getting into a number of her familiar scrapes, as only Anne cansome of which include selling her neighbors cow (having mistaken it for her own), or getting stuck in a broken duck house roof while peeping into a pantry window.

Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her original dream (which she gave up in Anne of Green Gables) of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova Scotia. Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane enroll as well, as does Annes friend from Queens Academy, Priscilla Grant. During her first week of school, Anne befriends Philippa Gordon, a beautiful girl whose frivolous ways charm her. Philippa (Phil for short) also happens to be from Annes birthplace in Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia.The girls spend their first year in boardinghouses and decide to set up house thereafter in a lovely cottage called Pattys Place, near campus. The girls enter their second year at Redmond happily ensconced at Pattys Place, along with Queens classmate Stella Maynard and her "Aunt Jimsie" (their chaperone), while life continues in Avonlea. Diana Barry becomes engaged to Fred Wright and Davy and Dora continue to keep Marilla busy.Midway through their college years, Gilbert Blythe, who has always loved Anne, proposes to her but Anne rejects him; although she and Gilbert are very close, she holds sentimental fantasies about true love (all featuring a tall, dark, handsome, inscrutable hero) and does not recognize her true feelings for Gilbert. Gilbert leaves, his heart broken, and the two drift apart.Annes childhood friend Ruby Gillis dies of consumption very soon after finding her own true love. Anne later welcomes the courtship of Roy Gardiner, a darkly handsome Redmond student who showers her with attention and poetic gestures. However, when he proposes after two years, Anne abruptly realizes that Roy does not really belong in her life, and that she had only been in love with the idea of him as the embodiment of her romantic image of love.Anne is so ashamed in how she treated Roy that she feels her entire Redmond experience may have been spoiled. She returns to Green Gables, a "full-fledged B.A.", but finds herself a bit lonely. Diana gives birth to her first child, and Jane Andrews, an old school friend, marries a Winnipeg millionaire. Having received an offer to be the principal of the Summerside school in the fall, Anne is keeping herself occupied over the summer when she learns that Gilbert is gravely ill with typhoid fever. With shock, Anne finally realizes how deep her true feelings for Gilbert are, and endures a white night of fear that he will leave this world without knowing that she does care. In the morning, Anne gratefully learns that Gilbert will survive. Gilbert recovers over the summer, bolstered by a letter from Phil assuring him that there is really nothing between Anne and Roy. After several visits to Green Gables, Gilbert and Anne take a late summer walk in Hester Grays garden, and finally become engaged.

Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, siblings in their fifties and sixties, had decided to adopt a boy from the orphanage to help Matthew run their farm. They live at Green Gables, their Avonlea farmhouse on Prince Edward Island. Through a misunderstanding, the orphanage sends Anne Shirley.Anne is described as bright and quick, eager to please, talkative, and extremely imaginative. She has a pale face with freckles and usually braids her red hair. Marilla at first says the girl must return to the orphanage, but after a few days, she decides to let her stay. Marilla feels that she could be a good influence on the girl and has also learned that a disagreeable woman in town might take Anne instead.As a child of imagination, Anne takes much joy in life and adapts quickly, thriving in the close-knit farming village. Her talkativeness initially drives the prim, duty-driven Marilla to distraction, although Matthew falls for her charm immediately. Anne says that they are "kindred spirits."The book recounts Annes adventures in making a home: the country school where she quickly excels in her studies; her friendship with Diana Barry (her best or "bosom friend" as Anne fondly calls her); her budding literary ambitions; and her rivalry with classmate Gilbert Blythe, who teases her about her red hair. For that, he earns her instant hatred, although he apologizes many times. As time passes, Anne realizes she no longer hates Gilbert but cannot bring herself to speak to him...

This ebook compiles Lucy Maud Montgomerys complete Anne of Green Gables novels, including "Anne of Green Gables", "Anne of Windy Poplars", "Anne of Ingleside" and "Rainbow Valley".This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)Dont Miss a Moment with Anne Shirley in this Anne of Green Gables Bundle This bundle includes: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Annes House of Dreams Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside Chronicles of Avonlea Further Chronicles of Avonlea This Anne of Green Gables Collection has been professionally formatted for e-readers and contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope youll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and cant wait to hear what you have to say about it.

Fru Rachel Lynde bodde alldeles dar stora landsvagen till Avonlea svangde ned i en liten dalsanka, kantad av alar och ormbunkar och genomfluten av en back, som hade sin kalla lngt inne i skogen p andra sidan den gamla Cuthbertska grden. Den pstods vara en ganska nyckfull och yster back under sitt forsta lopp genom dessa skogar, med morka hemligheter av tjarnar och porlande fall mellan stenblocken. Men nar den hann fram till Lyndes sanka, var den ett lugnt och sedesamt litet vattendrag, ty inte ens en back kunde passera forbi fru Rachel Lyndes dorr utan tillborlig hansyn till anstandigheten och det passande.Den hade formodligen reda p, att fru Rachel satt i sitt fonster och holl ett vaksamt oga p allting, som kom forbi, frn och med backar och barnungar, och att, om hon markte ngonting besynnerligt eller oriktigt, hon aldrig skulle ge sig ngon levande ro, forran hon uppsprat grunden och orsaken.

Skorden ar bargad, och sommarn ar slut, smsjong Anne Shirley och blickade drommande ut over de mejade falten. Hon och Diana Barry hade plockat ned applen i Gronkullas kokstradgrd, men nu sutto de och vilade sig efter sina modor i en solig vr, dit latta tistelfjun kommo flygande, burna av vindflaktar, som annu voro sommarljumma och doftande av ormbunkarna inne i Spokskogen.Men allt hos landskapet omkring dem talade om host. Havet brusade dovt i fjarran, falten lgo kala och fortorkade, strodda har och dar med gullris, dalsankan, dar backen flot forbi Gronkulla, lyste av purpurvioletta astrar, och Morka, speglande vgen var blare an ngonsin. Men det var icke vrens nyckfullt skiftande bl, icke heller sommarens bleka azur, utan en klar, lugn och mattad farg, som om vattnet overvunnit all slags lynnighet och upprordhet och sjunkit han i ett tillstnd av ro, som aldrig mera skulle storas av flyktiga och oberakneliga drommar.

Gud vare tack geometrien har jag d sluppit ifrn, bde att soka f in den i min egen arma hjarna och att plugga den i andra, sade Anne Shirley och slangde med skadeglad min en nott och tillbucklad Euklides ned i en stor boklr. S slog hon triumferande igen locket, satte sig p det och tittade tvars over Gronkullas vind p Diana Wright med gra ogon, som liknade en luftigt skimrande morgonsky.Vinden var, som ju alla vindar bora vara, en trevlig gammal plats med morka skrymslen och vrr under takbjalkarna, som satte fantasien i rorelse. Genom det oppna fonstret, invid vilket Anne satt, flaktade augustieftermiddagens milda, doftande och solvarma luft, och dar utanfor prasslade och svangde popplarnas grenar for vinden. Bortom dem lgo skogen, dar De alskandes strt mjukt buktade sig fram mellan mossiga stammar och ormbunkssnr, och den gamla kokstradgrden, dar appletraden fortforo att bara rika, rosiga skordar. Och som en bakgrund stod mot den bl himmelen i soder en valdig bergskedja av hogt upptornade, snovita moln. Genom det motsatta fonstret skymtade man p avstnd ett blnande hav med skum p vgtopparna den vackra S:t Lorenzobukten, varur hojer sig det lummigt gronskande Abegweit. Men detta vekt och milt klingande indianska namn har for lange sedan utbytts mot det mera prosaiska Prins Edvards o.

En lng, smart flicka i sjuttonrsldern, med allvarliga gr ogon och ett hr, som hennes vanner kallade kastanjebrunt, hade slagit sig ned p den roda sandstentrappan utanfor en lantlig stuga p Prins Edvards o en harlig solskenseftermiddag i augusti. Hon hade foresatt sig att oversatta femtio rader i Virgilius.Men denna augustieftermiddag, d bl tockenslojor lgo som lattaste flor over de boljande sadesfalten, skalmska vindflaktar tisslade och tasslade i popplarna och vallmorna glodde i grannaste rott inne i furudungen langst borta i tradgrden, lampade sig vida battre for svarmiska drommerier an for latinska studier. Virgilius gled snart obemarkt ned p marken; Anne stodde hakan mot sina hopknappta hander, riktade blicken mot den glansande massa ulliga moln, som likt ett stort vitt berg tornade upp sig rakt over herr Harrisons hus, och befann sig snart lngt borta i en fortjusande varld, dar en viss ung och nybakad skollararinna utrattade ett underbart arbete, utformade blivande statsmans oden och fyllde ungdomliga sinnen och hjartan med hogtstravande arelystnad

Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks. She was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.