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The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)
The Anne of Green Gables Series and MUCH MORE in one Collection!
As the father of four daughters who LOVE the Anne books, I set out to create the ultimate Kindle edition of these timeless books. I wanted a perfectly-formatted, easy-to-use Kindle release that included these amazing books at a fantastic price. And here is the result!
This exciting collection has these great features:
The complete text of eight great books featuring Anne "with an e" Shirley
Three additional novels from Lucy Maud Montgomery
One complete book of poetry by Montgomery, "The Watchman and Other Poems"
142 wonderful short stories written by Montgomery
Links to download the unabridged audiobooks of all 11 novels for FREE!
The ability to easily jump to any book using the Kindle "go to" feature
An individual, active table of contents for each book so you can go to any chapter
Clean formatting, giving you full control over fonts and font sizes
Did I mention an unbeatable price?
All titles in this Anne of Green Gables collection, along with their publication date, are listed below.
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Anne of the Island (1915)
Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
Rainbow Valley (1919)
Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
The Story Girl (1911)
The Golden Road (Sequel to The Story Girl, 1913)
Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)
The Short Story Collection (1896-1922)
Unfortunately, there are two books in the Anne of Green Gables series which were published later and can't yet be included in this Kindle collection because of copyright restrictions. These are "Anne of Windy Poplars" (1936) and "Anne of Ingleside" (1939).
Thanks for checking out my Anne Stories collection. I hope you and your family enjoy these books as much as we have!
As the father of four daughters who LOVE the Anne books, I set out to create the ultimate Kindle edition of these timeless books. I wanted a perfectly-formatted, easy-to-use Kindle release that included these amazing books at a fantastic price. And here is the result!
This exciting collection has these great features:
The complete text of eight great books featuring Anne "with an e" Shirley
Three additional novels from Lucy Maud Montgomery
One complete book of poetry by Montgomery, "The Watchman and Other Poems"
142 wonderful short stories written by Montgomery
Links to download the unabridged audiobooks of all 11 novels for FREE!
The ability to easily jump to any book using the Kindle "go to" feature
An individual, active table of contents for each book so you can go to any chapter
Clean formatting, giving you full control over fonts and font sizes
Did I mention an unbeatable price?
All titles in this Anne of Green Gables collection, along with their publication date, are listed below.
Anne of Green Gables (1908)
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Anne of the Island (1915)
Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
Rainbow Valley (1919)
Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
The Story Girl (1911)
The Golden Road (Sequel to The Story Girl, 1913)
Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)
The Short Story Collection (1896-1922)
Unfortunately, there are two books in the Anne of Green Gables series which were published later and can't yet be included in this Kindle collection because of copyright restrictions. These are "Anne of Windy Poplars" (1936) and "Anne of Ingleside" (1939).
Thanks for checking out my Anne Stories collection. I hope you and your family enjoy these books as much as we have!
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Published February 5, 2013
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About the author
L.M. Montgomery
1,863 books13.2k followersLucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.
Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911. She had three children and wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Nov. 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge Ontario, after her wedding with Rev. Ewen Macdonald on July 11, 1911. She had three children and wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the family moved to Norval, Ontario in 1926. She died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
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August 11, 2024
What a comprehensive collection of Anne of Green Gables this is! The stories themselves are classics but to have all of the body of work in one place, so you can really be fully in Anne’s world, is fantastic. Great to have to read and reread and to pass on to kids! Recommend this collection especially for how much it includes!
July 31, 2014
such an easy, delightful way to escape. loved these stories. Though i must admit I did not quite finish all of them I eventually wanted a bit more action:)
September 7, 2017
1. Anne of Green Gables - (08 June, 2017 - 15 July, 2017) I haven't read this book since I was a kid in high school. So its been about 20 something odd years. I picked it up because of the new series on Netflix - Anne With an E. This book still held as much charm now as it did when I was a teen. I still loved Marilla, and Matthew, Anne, and Diana and all the crazy stuff Anne was always getting into.
2. Anne of Avonlea - (15 July, 2017 - 05 September, 2017) I had planned on reading something else after Anne of Green Gables, but just couldn't stop. I love the way that this series shows her growing up and changing. I hadn't remembered Marilla taking on the twins, but I was totally and completely charmed by Davy. I remembered Paul Irving from reading this book back in high school and I still loved him and Miss Lavender and Echo Lodge. I love the way that her and Gilbert are getting closer. I remember thinking he was just soooo dreamy when I read this in the days of yore.
2. Anne of Avonlea - (15 July, 2017 - 05 September, 2017) I had planned on reading something else after Anne of Green Gables, but just couldn't stop. I love the way that this series shows her growing up and changing. I hadn't remembered Marilla taking on the twins, but I was totally and completely charmed by Davy. I remembered Paul Irving from reading this book back in high school and I still loved him and Miss Lavender and Echo Lodge. I love the way that her and Gilbert are getting closer. I remember thinking he was just soooo dreamy when I read this in the days of yore.
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January 8, 2014Version received has more stories than goodreads shows
July 20, 2014
a classic!
June 5, 2017
Reliving My Childhood Memories
This book was on my bucket list. A friend of mine always talked about this book.
Even through the book is for younger readers, I enjoyed it immensely.
The descriptions are vivid and the characters come alive.
I recommend this book to young and old alike.
Some of the short stories seemed repetitive in plot, however, still a good read.
This book was on my bucket list. A friend of mine always talked about this book.
Even through the book is for younger readers, I enjoyed it immensely.
The descriptions are vivid and the characters come alive.
I recommend this book to young and old alike.
Some of the short stories seemed repetitive in plot, however, still a good read.
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February 18, 2020Anne of Green Gables 5* 2/15-18/20 (182)
September 30, 2015
My favorite childhood series. Timeless
July 16, 2017
Some favorite childhood classics!
November 2, 2019
Excellent
April 28, 2020
Lovely girl I love it!!!!! I've only read ten books son,but this one has been my favorite book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 4, 2020
Anne Stories
Most classic literature by women authors is reflection of their collected wisdom through their lives, and the morality and ethics of the writing follows a lifeblood path as do the romances, rather than a study and a fancy clubbed together.
This set of tales was probably serialized originally, especially the second one on, from the tone of separate chapters - each a complete story, and yet they follow smoothly, flowing quite nicely one after another together.
The titles seem to indicate Anne's progress in life via the procession of widening circles they indicate - the house, the village, the island, and then they go specifying again, with house her home, and it's location.
One exasperation for a reader would be, when tempted by the beautiful descriptions of various places, one looks for just where it all is - and the place doesn't exist, or at least pieces don't match. Names are taken from wherever the author liked, and while descriptions might fit a place, it's hard to find just where any of them exists on maps.
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Anne of Green Gables
The book begins with Mrs. Rachel Lynde, who is as much antithesis of Elizabeth from Elizabeth's German Garden as could be. That, one supposes after the protagonist appears, was a little bitter dose so the cherry cake Anne is that much more astounding, taking one by complete surprise.
It's a surprise that the protagonist is a little orphan girl arriving fresh at the home named Green Gables, rather than the woman of indeterminate age one sees on the cover, but that passes. Before long, before one knows, one is deep in comfort with Anne's world. The book is about halfway before one realises she's not going to be grown up in this volume, the author being in no hurry, and one is to enjoy the girlhood and the world thereof, with school and friends, teachers and walks in woods, and not talking to boys who are interested in one.
Nice to have descriptions of loveliness of nature and seasons strewn all over, but characterisation are good, and one expects Anne would grow out of hating Gilbert Blythe, which she is more than done already, long before they tie for top at entrance exam to Queen's.
And they are friends just as this ends, bringing satisfaction to reader despite the tragedy that smites in the silent Matthew departing and Marilla dealing with more.
June 26, 2020 - July 01, 2020.
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Anne of Avonlea
Here we have Anne's career as a schoolteacher and beginning of society of her generation of Avonlea, with Gilbert Blythe now her close friend, apart from Diana (now courted by Fred Wright), and other schoolmates that had been at Queen's.
Her life now moreover is already centred on children, her pupils at school and twins at home who are Marilla's cousins.
Anne and her friends try to improve Avonlea by getting people to improve their properties and fronts, fences and sidewalks, but are confronted by unexpected problems, from mixups leading to a hall painted bright blue instead of green, to serious horrors looming in shape of people renting their fences for advertisements.
Anne lingers in girlhood, woods and flowers and children, with Gilbert still only a friend, although she's become aware he's growing out of boyhood. Her first acquaintance with the phenomenon of love is via a love story of two people of a prior generation, one a father of a favourite student and another she discovers living in a lovely house far out of the village, surrounded by a forest anne is enchanted with; the now middle aged woman finds a kindred spirit in the young boy so like his father, the love of her life.
And the romance does blossom, with Stephen Irving returning to marry Lavender Lewis finally, after Paul writes him about meeting her. But Marilla has the sensible comment:-
""I can't see that it's so terribly romantic at all," said Marilla rather crisply. Marilla thought Anne was too worked up about it and had plenty to do with getting ready for college without "traipsing" to Echo Lodge two days out of three helping Miss Lavendar. "In the first place two young fools quarrel and turn sulky; then Steve Irving goes to the States and after a spell gets married up there and is perfectly happy from all accounts. Then his wife dies and after a decent interval he thinks he'll come home and see if his first fancy'll have him. Meanwhile, she's been living single, probably because nobody nice enough came along to want her, and they meet and agree to be married after all. Now, where is the romance in all that?""
Exactly what those not fooled by the candy floss KJ copy, KKHH, thought. But meanwhile Anne is being sent off to college after all by Marilla, and that's the end of this part of the story and of her teaching Avonlea school for now, with a possible glimmer of romance with Gilbert Blythe on horizon.
July 01, 2020 - July 07, 2020.
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Anne of the Island
One must give credit for continuity of the narrative that it picks up exactly where it left off, strengthening the guess that these were serialised writings published in periodicals before a suitable bunch was published as a book, rather than individual books published at intervals.
Changes are smooth - Diana Barry, engaged to Fred Wright back in Avonlea, has another path in life, and Priscilla Grant, familiar since Queen's, is now close friend and companion of Anne, who is at Redmond college at kingsport in Nova Scotia along with Gilbert Blythe and another Avonlea boy, Charlie Sloane. And now they meet Philippa Gordon from Bolingbroke, NS, where Anne originated.
Letters from Avonlea secured her life at college.
"Mrs. Lynde had more time than ever to devote to church affairs and had flung herself into them heart and soul. She was at present much worked up over the poor "supplies" they were having in the vacant Avonlea pulpit.
""I don't believe any but fools enter the ministry nowadays," she wrote bitterly. "Such candidates as they have sent us, and such stuff as they preach! Half of it ain't true, and, what's worse, it ain't sound doctrine. The one we have now is the worst of the lot. He mostly takes a text and preaches about something else. And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost. The idea! If they won't all the money we've been giving to Foreign Missions will be clean wasted, that's what! Last Sunday night he announced that next Sunday he'd preach on the axe-head that swam. I think he'd better confine himself to the Bible and leave sensational subjects alone. Things have come to a pretty pass if a minister can't find enough in Holy Writ to preach about, that's what. What church do you attend, Anne? I hope you go regularly. People are apt to get so careless about church-going away from home, and I understand college students are great sinners in this respect. I'm told many of them actually study their lessons on Sunday. I hope you'll never sink that low, Anne."
This book is about change experienced through college years, with summers spent at home in Avonlea even as home is coming to be in two places. And instead of it being limited to light frolic and serious study - which is there, of course, with a couple of exasperating and very unexpected proposals Anne has to turn down, and a attempt at story writing that ends in disappointment at rejection by publishers - there is serious life too, with death of a beautiful friend from school, experienced deeply by Anne. And the anticlimactic winning of story competition because Diana Barry sent the story in without telling Anne, modifying it to suit the advertising of a baking powder, and Anne consequently winning twenty five dollars, to her great mortification! Splendid!
It only gets better thereafter, with millionaire neighbour asking to buy Mrs Lynde's gift of tulip patchwork quilt from Anne, the cats, and Aunt Jamesina, at Patty's Place. There's the very rich, beautiful and brainy Phillipa Gordon sharing this new home and consequently learning frugal life, and saying shopping for groceries was more fun than parties with beaux fighting over her.
It ends well, with several satisfactory weddings, and finally uniting Gilbert Blythe with Anne, after she's had every chance at her romantic fancies - refusing him, meeting the dark handsome Roy Gardner who promptly falls in love and courts her and proposes after graduation, realising she didnt love him, and finally understanding that she could only love Gilbert - so it's quite satisfactory.
July 07, 2020 - July 09, 2020.
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Anne's House of Dreams
Three years have passed between where the last volume ends and this begins, and Anne has taught school at Summerside while Gilbert Blythe finished his medical school. Their wedding is set and he's to join his great uncle's practice or rather take it over, at Four Winds Point, and he's found a dream house for them - hence the title. Diana Wright, who'd had her son Fred as the last volume ends, meanwhile has a two year old daughter called Small Anne Cordelia, mystifying Avonlea. There's a beautiful wedding in the orchard, with Allens presiding and Philippa Gordon's husband Jonas Blake leading a prayer, a bird singing through it all.
Marilla keeps in her grief at Anne no longer living at Green Gables, and expecting her to visit no longer through every vacation, after the fourteen years of lighting up Marilla's life with love. But Anne's friends - Diana with babies, Allans and Irvings - stay through the evening to supper, comforting them, and the twins are grown and taking over. Marilla might grieve Anne, but she won't be left lonely.
Anne's new home, unlike Green Gables, is close to harbour, and it's her first close acquaintance with the ocean with its might, beauty and more. The author compares the difference of woods verses ocean as human society versus mighty lonely soul, and one gets a feeling on the other hand that a veiled comparison here is that of childhood versus adult life - woods being comparatively safe, comfy, beautiful, while ocean has all the unpredictability and lurking dangers one might encounter in life as adults. A glimpse thereof is already in the previous volume, where Anne meets her perfect romantic fantasy in Roy on seaside walk in heavy storm, and is brought back to the same spot by him when he proposes. Gilbert, on the other hand, proposes both times in woods, in a park first and in an overgrown garden finally. She rejects Roy and the uncertainty, because she realises she doesn't love him; she realises she loves Gilbert Blythe before he proposes again, and faces life in a harbour in a home facing the ocean - in secure company of the love and security thereof that she found in woods.
In a way, this progression runs parallel to that of her life moving from village of Avonlea to the college life in town of Kingsport, and then to the harbour of Four Winds, signifying possibilities of global travel and adventures.
This volume is as much about the beauty of a harbour as it's about the stunningly beautiful neighbour of Anne and Gilbert Blythe, Leslie Moore, and her travails, the very lovable Captain Jim whose life's story is entrusted to Owen Ford the incredibly handsome author, and it's all woven together in reflections somehow of light and ocean, mist and shore, lighthouse and garden. The resolution of it all is unexpected too, and answers the question one wonders about, which is, why isn't there more about the twins and Marilla and so on.
It's because they are there, doing fine, but life moves on, and Anne's life is blossoming. She and Gilbert are to buy a larger house with property across the harbour so it's convenient, and Owen Ford is buying the little house of drems so he and his bride Leslie can have vacations there.
July 09, 2020 - July 12, 2020.
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Rainbow Valley
By the time one begins this one, one is hooked. Then comes the surprise, of Rainbow Valley - the title corresponding more to the various chikdren portrayed than the valley unseen by the reader, hence quite misty.
Now thirteen years have lapsed, Anne is a mother of half a dozen, the eldest who looks like both parents born before the family shifted at the end of the last one; next son a dreamer like Anne, twin daughters Anne and Diana who look one each like one of the parents except its diana who takes her mother's colouring, the youngest a six year old daughter Rilla - short, presumably, for Marilla - in Anne's own image, and another son; and the household at Ingleside still retains Susan Baker for housekeeping and cooking, while Cornelia Bryant - who'd married Marshall Elliott after Liberals won and he got a haircut and a shave, after seventeen years - still visits regularly. And Mrs rachel lynde disapproves of Susan pampering the children. The Blythe couple has been to Europe for summer as this opens and left children in Avonlea except one whom Susan kept, since he's her pet. Their gossip session is how the author introduces next batch of characters and their histories, characters and more.
There is a new minister, and the four Meredith children make friends with the Blythe children while the latter picnic at Rainbow Valley, so named by them because they saw a rainbow stretch over it once. Here the author has a variation of the Avonlea woods for Anne's children.
And then the Meredith children find a starving orphan and adopt her for a while, with no adult any wiser, before Cornelia Bryant steps in to correct the situation - and is coaxed by Una Meredith into adopting her! So now we have a kaleidoscope of variations of the original Anne, none quite like her, and some even boys. The author is far more comfortable with children, unless it was readers who steered the author. Anne is now in background, with occasional comments from her, in conversations with Gilbert Blythe, Susan, Cornelia Bryant and others.
Cornelia Bryant continues to be the window for a reader not well versed in politics of churches, politics between communities of different churches, and what's considered propriety, which are all startling if one assumed any of it had anything to do with values such as truth, humanity, or kindness. Hence the Meredith children being always in soup despite their goodness.
Trust Anne to set the gossipers right, and point out that Meredith family is an extraordinary collection of people with rare virtues.
The author ends the book with a double wedding in immediate future, Anne's eldest Jem going off to Queen's soon, and gives a hint of the impending WWI that none of them have foreseen, except for Ellen West, sister of Rosemary, the soon to be new Mrs Meredith.
July 12, 2020 - July 14, 2020.
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Rilla of Ingleside
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Chronicles of Avonlea
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Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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The Story Girl
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The Golden Road
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Kilmeny of the Orchard
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The Watchman and Other Poems
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The Short Story Collection
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Most classic literature by women authors is reflection of their collected wisdom through their lives, and the morality and ethics of the writing follows a lifeblood path as do the romances, rather than a study and a fancy clubbed together.
This set of tales was probably serialized originally, especially the second one on, from the tone of separate chapters - each a complete story, and yet they follow smoothly, flowing quite nicely one after another together.
The titles seem to indicate Anne's progress in life via the procession of widening circles they indicate - the house, the village, the island, and then they go specifying again, with house her home, and it's location.
One exasperation for a reader would be, when tempted by the beautiful descriptions of various places, one looks for just where it all is - and the place doesn't exist, or at least pieces don't match. Names are taken from wherever the author liked, and while descriptions might fit a place, it's hard to find just where any of them exists on maps.
............
............
Anne of Green Gables
The book begins with Mrs. Rachel Lynde, who is as much antithesis of Elizabeth from Elizabeth's German Garden as could be. That, one supposes after the protagonist appears, was a little bitter dose so the cherry cake Anne is that much more astounding, taking one by complete surprise.
It's a surprise that the protagonist is a little orphan girl arriving fresh at the home named Green Gables, rather than the woman of indeterminate age one sees on the cover, but that passes. Before long, before one knows, one is deep in comfort with Anne's world. The book is about halfway before one realises she's not going to be grown up in this volume, the author being in no hurry, and one is to enjoy the girlhood and the world thereof, with school and friends, teachers and walks in woods, and not talking to boys who are interested in one.
Nice to have descriptions of loveliness of nature and seasons strewn all over, but characterisation are good, and one expects Anne would grow out of hating Gilbert Blythe, which she is more than done already, long before they tie for top at entrance exam to Queen's.
And they are friends just as this ends, bringing satisfaction to reader despite the tragedy that smites in the silent Matthew departing and Marilla dealing with more.
June 26, 2020 - July 01, 2020.
............
Anne of Avonlea
Here we have Anne's career as a schoolteacher and beginning of society of her generation of Avonlea, with Gilbert Blythe now her close friend, apart from Diana (now courted by Fred Wright), and other schoolmates that had been at Queen's.
Her life now moreover is already centred on children, her pupils at school and twins at home who are Marilla's cousins.
Anne and her friends try to improve Avonlea by getting people to improve their properties and fronts, fences and sidewalks, but are confronted by unexpected problems, from mixups leading to a hall painted bright blue instead of green, to serious horrors looming in shape of people renting their fences for advertisements.
Anne lingers in girlhood, woods and flowers and children, with Gilbert still only a friend, although she's become aware he's growing out of boyhood. Her first acquaintance with the phenomenon of love is via a love story of two people of a prior generation, one a father of a favourite student and another she discovers living in a lovely house far out of the village, surrounded by a forest anne is enchanted with; the now middle aged woman finds a kindred spirit in the young boy so like his father, the love of her life.
And the romance does blossom, with Stephen Irving returning to marry Lavender Lewis finally, after Paul writes him about meeting her. But Marilla has the sensible comment:-
""I can't see that it's so terribly romantic at all," said Marilla rather crisply. Marilla thought Anne was too worked up about it and had plenty to do with getting ready for college without "traipsing" to Echo Lodge two days out of three helping Miss Lavendar. "In the first place two young fools quarrel and turn sulky; then Steve Irving goes to the States and after a spell gets married up there and is perfectly happy from all accounts. Then his wife dies and after a decent interval he thinks he'll come home and see if his first fancy'll have him. Meanwhile, she's been living single, probably because nobody nice enough came along to want her, and they meet and agree to be married after all. Now, where is the romance in all that?""
Exactly what those not fooled by the candy floss KJ copy, KKHH, thought. But meanwhile Anne is being sent off to college after all by Marilla, and that's the end of this part of the story and of her teaching Avonlea school for now, with a possible glimmer of romance with Gilbert Blythe on horizon.
July 01, 2020 - July 07, 2020.
............
Anne of the Island
One must give credit for continuity of the narrative that it picks up exactly where it left off, strengthening the guess that these were serialised writings published in periodicals before a suitable bunch was published as a book, rather than individual books published at intervals.
Changes are smooth - Diana Barry, engaged to Fred Wright back in Avonlea, has another path in life, and Priscilla Grant, familiar since Queen's, is now close friend and companion of Anne, who is at Redmond college at kingsport in Nova Scotia along with Gilbert Blythe and another Avonlea boy, Charlie Sloane. And now they meet Philippa Gordon from Bolingbroke, NS, where Anne originated.
Letters from Avonlea secured her life at college.
"Mrs. Lynde had more time than ever to devote to church affairs and had flung herself into them heart and soul. She was at present much worked up over the poor "supplies" they were having in the vacant Avonlea pulpit.
""I don't believe any but fools enter the ministry nowadays," she wrote bitterly. "Such candidates as they have sent us, and such stuff as they preach! Half of it ain't true, and, what's worse, it ain't sound doctrine. The one we have now is the worst of the lot. He mostly takes a text and preaches about something else. And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost. The idea! If they won't all the money we've been giving to Foreign Missions will be clean wasted, that's what! Last Sunday night he announced that next Sunday he'd preach on the axe-head that swam. I think he'd better confine himself to the Bible and leave sensational subjects alone. Things have come to a pretty pass if a minister can't find enough in Holy Writ to preach about, that's what. What church do you attend, Anne? I hope you go regularly. People are apt to get so careless about church-going away from home, and I understand college students are great sinners in this respect. I'm told many of them actually study their lessons on Sunday. I hope you'll never sink that low, Anne."
This book is about change experienced through college years, with summers spent at home in Avonlea even as home is coming to be in two places. And instead of it being limited to light frolic and serious study - which is there, of course, with a couple of exasperating and very unexpected proposals Anne has to turn down, and a attempt at story writing that ends in disappointment at rejection by publishers - there is serious life too, with death of a beautiful friend from school, experienced deeply by Anne. And the anticlimactic winning of story competition because Diana Barry sent the story in without telling Anne, modifying it to suit the advertising of a baking powder, and Anne consequently winning twenty five dollars, to her great mortification! Splendid!
It only gets better thereafter, with millionaire neighbour asking to buy Mrs Lynde's gift of tulip patchwork quilt from Anne, the cats, and Aunt Jamesina, at Patty's Place. There's the very rich, beautiful and brainy Phillipa Gordon sharing this new home and consequently learning frugal life, and saying shopping for groceries was more fun than parties with beaux fighting over her.
It ends well, with several satisfactory weddings, and finally uniting Gilbert Blythe with Anne, after she's had every chance at her romantic fancies - refusing him, meeting the dark handsome Roy Gardner who promptly falls in love and courts her and proposes after graduation, realising she didnt love him, and finally understanding that she could only love Gilbert - so it's quite satisfactory.
July 07, 2020 - July 09, 2020.
............
Anne's House of Dreams
Three years have passed between where the last volume ends and this begins, and Anne has taught school at Summerside while Gilbert Blythe finished his medical school. Their wedding is set and he's to join his great uncle's practice or rather take it over, at Four Winds Point, and he's found a dream house for them - hence the title. Diana Wright, who'd had her son Fred as the last volume ends, meanwhile has a two year old daughter called Small Anne Cordelia, mystifying Avonlea. There's a beautiful wedding in the orchard, with Allens presiding and Philippa Gordon's husband Jonas Blake leading a prayer, a bird singing through it all.
Marilla keeps in her grief at Anne no longer living at Green Gables, and expecting her to visit no longer through every vacation, after the fourteen years of lighting up Marilla's life with love. But Anne's friends - Diana with babies, Allans and Irvings - stay through the evening to supper, comforting them, and the twins are grown and taking over. Marilla might grieve Anne, but she won't be left lonely.
Anne's new home, unlike Green Gables, is close to harbour, and it's her first close acquaintance with the ocean with its might, beauty and more. The author compares the difference of woods verses ocean as human society versus mighty lonely soul, and one gets a feeling on the other hand that a veiled comparison here is that of childhood versus adult life - woods being comparatively safe, comfy, beautiful, while ocean has all the unpredictability and lurking dangers one might encounter in life as adults. A glimpse thereof is already in the previous volume, where Anne meets her perfect romantic fantasy in Roy on seaside walk in heavy storm, and is brought back to the same spot by him when he proposes. Gilbert, on the other hand, proposes both times in woods, in a park first and in an overgrown garden finally. She rejects Roy and the uncertainty, because she realises she doesn't love him; she realises she loves Gilbert Blythe before he proposes again, and faces life in a harbour in a home facing the ocean - in secure company of the love and security thereof that she found in woods.
In a way, this progression runs parallel to that of her life moving from village of Avonlea to the college life in town of Kingsport, and then to the harbour of Four Winds, signifying possibilities of global travel and adventures.
This volume is as much about the beauty of a harbour as it's about the stunningly beautiful neighbour of Anne and Gilbert Blythe, Leslie Moore, and her travails, the very lovable Captain Jim whose life's story is entrusted to Owen Ford the incredibly handsome author, and it's all woven together in reflections somehow of light and ocean, mist and shore, lighthouse and garden. The resolution of it all is unexpected too, and answers the question one wonders about, which is, why isn't there more about the twins and Marilla and so on.
It's because they are there, doing fine, but life moves on, and Anne's life is blossoming. She and Gilbert are to buy a larger house with property across the harbour so it's convenient, and Owen Ford is buying the little house of drems so he and his bride Leslie can have vacations there.
July 09, 2020 - July 12, 2020.
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Rainbow Valley
By the time one begins this one, one is hooked. Then comes the surprise, of Rainbow Valley - the title corresponding more to the various chikdren portrayed than the valley unseen by the reader, hence quite misty.
Now thirteen years have lapsed, Anne is a mother of half a dozen, the eldest who looks like both parents born before the family shifted at the end of the last one; next son a dreamer like Anne, twin daughters Anne and Diana who look one each like one of the parents except its diana who takes her mother's colouring, the youngest a six year old daughter Rilla - short, presumably, for Marilla - in Anne's own image, and another son; and the household at Ingleside still retains Susan Baker for housekeeping and cooking, while Cornelia Bryant - who'd married Marshall Elliott after Liberals won and he got a haircut and a shave, after seventeen years - still visits regularly. And Mrs rachel lynde disapproves of Susan pampering the children. The Blythe couple has been to Europe for summer as this opens and left children in Avonlea except one whom Susan kept, since he's her pet. Their gossip session is how the author introduces next batch of characters and their histories, characters and more.
There is a new minister, and the four Meredith children make friends with the Blythe children while the latter picnic at Rainbow Valley, so named by them because they saw a rainbow stretch over it once. Here the author has a variation of the Avonlea woods for Anne's children.
And then the Meredith children find a starving orphan and adopt her for a while, with no adult any wiser, before Cornelia Bryant steps in to correct the situation - and is coaxed by Una Meredith into adopting her! So now we have a kaleidoscope of variations of the original Anne, none quite like her, and some even boys. The author is far more comfortable with children, unless it was readers who steered the author. Anne is now in background, with occasional comments from her, in conversations with Gilbert Blythe, Susan, Cornelia Bryant and others.
Cornelia Bryant continues to be the window for a reader not well versed in politics of churches, politics between communities of different churches, and what's considered propriety, which are all startling if one assumed any of it had anything to do with values such as truth, humanity, or kindness. Hence the Meredith children being always in soup despite their goodness.
Trust Anne to set the gossipers right, and point out that Meredith family is an extraordinary collection of people with rare virtues.
The author ends the book with a double wedding in immediate future, Anne's eldest Jem going off to Queen's soon, and gives a hint of the impending WWI that none of them have foreseen, except for Ellen West, sister of Rosemary, the soon to be new Mrs Meredith.
July 12, 2020 - July 14, 2020.
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Rilla of Ingleside
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Chronicles of Avonlea
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Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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The Story Girl
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The Golden Road
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Kilmeny of the Orchard
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The Watchman and Other Poems
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The Short Story Collection
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July 13, 2024
The version I received had additional books not listed including Call of the Wild and Pride and Prejudice. A very good purchase for $1!
The Anne Shirley collection was a true delight! It is missing two books but is mostly complete.
The additional poems, short stories and other books by Montgomery were ok. I didn't care for The Story Girl and its sequel.
Call of the Wild is very approachable and my preteen girl read it with me.
We also buddy read Pride and Prejudice and disliked it. I'm not sure why every female character was so horrible from the mother to the daughter?
For the amount of content that I received, it's a no-brainer to purchase.
The Anne Shirley collection was a true delight! It is missing two books but is mostly complete.
The additional poems, short stories and other books by Montgomery were ok. I didn't care for The Story Girl and its sequel.
Call of the Wild is very approachable and my preteen girl read it with me.
We also buddy read Pride and Prejudice and disliked it. I'm not sure why every female character was so horrible from the mother to the daughter?
For the amount of content that I received, it's a no-brainer to purchase.
March 12, 2023
This is a timeless story of growing up and navigating the world. Montgomery is a romantic writer. Her short stories became repetitive after awhile loaded with beautiful, delicate young girls and the handsome young men who wooed them. Her descriptions of nature were lovely.
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March 16, 2023
One of my very favorite childhood series. I've never stopped reading them and likely never will.
Anyone who knows Anne, loves Anne. I wish L.M could see her beloved Anne passed on to so many future generations
Anyone who knows Anne, loves Anne. I wish L.M could see her beloved Anne passed on to so many future generations
June 4, 2021
First few are great. The entire series is not read again and again books. They drag on.
August 18, 2021
Amazing and inspirational characters and stories! Well written and fun to read. A time warp to simpler days.
March 21, 2022
Read as a youth. Loved them.
September 3, 2023
Classics that are as enjoyable to read as a 50 year old as they were when I was 10. Lovely books
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August 24, 2024I adore all of these books… so very much.
March 16, 2025
Always a personal favorite of mine and my girls.
November 10, 2023
I finished these again and again and again. I keep going back to them. I enjoy L.M. Montgomery's writing very much. So much "scope for the imagination."
Anne of Windy Poplars is very funny. It is a grouping of short stories in Anne's life. Great writing!
Anne of Windy Poplars is very funny. It is a grouping of short stories in Anne's life. Great writing!
August 25, 2020
Great book
This book is an good book would recommend it ages 10 and up. If your child loves imaging and acting fun yet serous and positive this book is for you.
- Shelly Sauer
This book is an good book would recommend it ages 10 and up. If your child loves imaging and acting fun yet serous and positive this book is for you.
- Shelly Sauer
November 19, 2014
This was a collection of 13 books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The first 6 books were wonderful. They followed Anne Shirley as she grew up, went to college, got married, and raised her family. The last book of the "Anne" series: Rilla of Ingleside was slightly depressing, as it chronicled World War I and how it affected those in their village and family.
Books 7 and 8 were a collection of short stories taking place in Avonlea. I found these tedious and boring. With no main characters to get behind, it just didn't hold my interest.
Books 9 and 10 took us back to Avonlea again, but with Sara Stanley aka "The Story Girl" as the main character. The adventures of Sara and her cousins Dan, Felicity and Cecily King, and visiting cousins Felix and Beverly King (who knew that Beverly could be a boys name?!!)were wonderful and the two books flowed nicely.
Book 11 Kilmeny of the Orchard was just downright BORING. I couldn't get past the 4th chapter. Book 12 was a collection of poems that I skipped altogether, and the last book 13 was another short story collection with 142 stories! I tried reading a few, but again, they just didn't hold my interest.
So, at least the Anne stories and the Sara Stanley stories were worth reading.
Books 7 and 8 were a collection of short stories taking place in Avonlea. I found these tedious and boring. With no main characters to get behind, it just didn't hold my interest.
Books 9 and 10 took us back to Avonlea again, but with Sara Stanley aka "The Story Girl" as the main character. The adventures of Sara and her cousins Dan, Felicity and Cecily King, and visiting cousins Felix and Beverly King (who knew that Beverly could be a boys name?!!)were wonderful and the two books flowed nicely.
Book 11 Kilmeny of the Orchard was just downright BORING. I couldn't get past the 4th chapter. Book 12 was a collection of poems that I skipped altogether, and the last book 13 was another short story collection with 142 stories! I tried reading a few, but again, they just didn't hold my interest.
So, at least the Anne stories and the Sara Stanley stories were worth reading.
July 15, 2013
I love the wholesomeness and humor of the Anne and the Storyteller Books. I think Montgomery last the opportunity to make Anne a truly heroic mother. Anne is a strong capable youth and upon the death of her fist baby, she loses the strength which supported her through her difficult days before Green Gables. The latter books she is barely mentioned, which I was sad to see. The Storyteller books had me laughing out loud just as the earlier Anne books did.
January 6, 2015
Anne of Green Gables
I so much loved this story of days gone by that my daughter immediately sent for the PBS series paying nearly $150. So I will have many hours of watching it. These books are wonderful to read and my daughter feels only the PBS series will do it justice. I am sorry it is over could have read much more Thank you and for that price? Unbelievabl
I so much loved this story of days gone by that my daughter immediately sent for the PBS series paying nearly $150. So I will have many hours of watching it. These books are wonderful to read and my daughter feels only the PBS series will do it justice. I am sorry it is over could have read much more Thank you and for that price? Unbelievabl
June 8, 2015
I purchased this set on my Kindle Fire. I am reading it to my mom. We read a chapter or two per week. She is enjoying it very much, as am I.
We have finished Anne of Green Gables and are moving on to Anne of Avonlea. Still love these classic stories.
We have finished Anne of Green Gables and are moving on to Anne of Avonlea. Still love these classic stories.
December 11, 2015
Great stories
Montgomery's writing brings love and life and dreams awake. This collection is a plethora of fascinating characters and good stories of truth and beauty. I can't wait to read them to my children.
Montgomery's writing brings love and life and dreams awake. This collection is a plethora of fascinating characters and good stories of truth and beauty. I can't wait to read them to my children.
February 16, 2016
Some of the best books I've ever read, though they are supposed to be for kids, I don't think I would have read past the first 2 if I had read them when I was a kid. They are wonderful, but densely written. I would recommend for teens at the youngest.
September 11, 2016
I only read the first four books, after Anne of Green Gables. Once she got married and had all those kids, the stories weren't as interesting to me.
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