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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
cransell: The Country of Pointed Firs really reminded me of Anne of Green Gables - although not at all focused of a child or growing up. But if you enjoy one, you'll likely enjoy the other.
Independent Reading Level: Grades 4-7 Award: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts In 1923, Montgomery became the first Canadian woman to receive this honor. Ranked in The Big Read: In 2003, the BBC survey ranked Anne of Green Gables 41st in its list of the British public's favorite novel Ranked in School Library Journal: In 2012, School Library Journal ranked Anne of Green Gables 9th among all-time children's novels
It had been some time since I last read Anne of Green Gables. I have watched the PBS TV movies far more than I have read any of the novels. I have begun to develop a fondness for Audible's dramatizations of popular novels and decided to give this one a try. I was not disappointed. Sandra Oh did a beautiful job of acting as the main narrator, while Victor Garber and Catherine O'Hara were perfect in the roles of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Michela Luci truly embodied the wonder and awe that is Anne Shirley. This version truly made you feel like you were there with the characters. The adaptation enhanced rather than diminished L.M. Montgomery's work, and I am deeply grateful for this experience. The only complaint was that some of the background noise became too loud to hear the dialogue. If you are unfamiliar with the story, I highly recommend giving this a first listen before moving on to the series. ( )
Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a real home. Since her parents' deaths, she's bounced around to foster homes and orphanages. When she is sent by mistake to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she wants to stay forever. But Anne is not the sturdy boy Matthew and Marilla were expecting.
She's a mischievous, talkative redheaded girl with a fierce temper, who tumbles into one scrape after another. Anne is not like anybody else, the Cuthberts agree; she is special, a girl with an enormous imagination. All she's ever wanted is to belong somewhere. And the longer she stays at Green Gables, the harder it is for anyone to imagine life without her.
I'm the wrong demographic for this but it was surprisingly enjoyable. Anne was written in 1908 but feels surprisingly modern for a more than a century old book about an even earlier age. The precocious kid with a big mouth and head full of dreams is relatable, and Montgomery manages to track her changes from child to teenager quite well. You really feel Anne is a person, however much at odds with her own time, changing through the trials and tribulations into someone more mature. This is still a work marked by time as to what's considered proper, but Anne is not exactly a demure wallflower despite her great sense of romantic drama. ( )
The good stars met in your horoscope, Made you of spirit and fire and dew. - Browning
Dedication
To the memory of my Father and Mother
First words
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 Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's 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.
Quotations
"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? … Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought."
"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep". But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor – which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
"Oh, but it's good to be alive and to be going home," breathed Anne.
But if the path set before her feet was to be narrow, she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it.
Worrying helps you some - it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying.
"Mrs. Lynde says they've never had a female teacher in Avonlea before and she thinks it is a dangerous innovation. But I think it will be splendid to have a lady teacher, and I really don't see how I'm going to live through the two weeks before school begins, I'm so impatient to see her."
"I wouldn't give a dog I liked to that Blewett woman."
"Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed.
"No."
"Oh!" Anne drew a long breath. "Oh, Miss--Marilla, how much you miss!"
Last words
"'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,'" whispered Anne softly.
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Inspiring, adventurous, and full of life, Anne (with an 'e') is adopted into the home of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Although they had originally wanted a boy, they begin to fall in love with the red-headed spunky girl, despite her shenanigans. This is a story of the life of Anne Shirley; from experiencing life's highs when finding bosom friends, to being in the 'depths of despair' during its trials, Anne learns to love those around her while experiencing all life has to offer.
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February Group Read: Anne of Green Gables
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Award: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts In 1923, Montgomery became the first Canadian woman to receive this honor.
Ranked in The Big Read: In 2003, the BBC survey ranked Anne of Green Gables 41st in its list of the British public's favorite novel
Ranked in School Library Journal: In 2012, School Library Journal ranked Anne of Green Gables 9th among all-time children's novels