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Anne of Green Gables
- 309 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 1908
- 1,299 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister, send to an orphanage for a boy to help on their farm, Green Gables, in the village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. By mistake they are sent Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old girl with red hair, a quick temper and an imagination that never rests. Shy Matthew is won over at once; stern Marilla takes longer. The novel follows Anne over the next few years, through her scrapes and mishaps, her devoted friendship with Diana Barry, her rivalry at school with Gilbert Blythe, and her growing place in the household and the village. L. M. Montgomery's novel, published in 1908, was the first of a series about Anne.
- Country life
- Friendship
- Friendship in fiction
- Canada
- Biography
- Orphans
- Orphans in fiction
- Foster home care
2 What to expect
A warm, episodic novel about a talkative, imaginative orphan taken in by a brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm in the late nineteenth century. Each chapter is a small scrape or triumph at home, at school or in the village, and together they show a girl growing up and a household learning to love her. It is gentle, funny and sentimental, with loving descriptions of the island's landscape and some sadness late on.
Good for readers who want: a comforting classic, an irrepressible heroine, and village life in old Canada.
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