The Anne of Green Gables Collection

by L.M. Montgomery

Collection containing the 6 books telling the life and adventures of Anne Shirley: Anne Of Green Gables, Anne Of Avonlea, Anne Of The Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside.

Genres: Classics, Audiobook, Childrens

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1939

About the author

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author whose novels, stories, essays and poems made her one of the most widely read writers in Canadian literary history. Publishing under the name L. M. Montgomery, she achieved international recognition with the novel Anne of Green Gables, released in 1908, which quickly became a bestseller and introduced readers to the imaginative orphan Anne Shirley. The success of the book transformed Montgomery from a schoolteacher and magazine contributor into a celebrated literary figure whose work reached audiences far beyond Canada. Raised on Prince Edward Island, she drew deeply on its landscapes, rural communities, and storytelling traditions, turning the island into the setting for many of her novels. The popularity of Anne of Green Gables led to numerous sequels, including Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island, establishing a beloved series that followed Anne from childhood to adulthood. Montgomery continued to write steadily throughout her life, producing twenty novels and more than a thousand short stories poems and essays. Her fiction often centered on young women, personal growth, and the emotional ties between people and place, combining gentle humor with reflections on memory, imagination, and belonging. Although she enjoyed enormous popularity, Montgomery also faced personal difficulties, including long periods of depression and the strain of caring for her husband, a Presbyterian minister who struggled with mental illness. Writing became both a profession and a refuge, allowing her to transform memories of childhood and observation of everyday life into vivid storytelling. In addition to the Anne series, she created other notable works, including the Emily novels and several stand alone stories that explored identity, creativity, and attachment to home. Her books were translated widely and attracted devoted readers around the world, helping shape the international image of Prince Edward Island as a place of pastoral beauty and warm community life. Scholars later studied her extensive journals letters and manuscripts, which revealed the complex inner life behind the cheerful tone of many of her books. By the time of her death in 1942, Montgomery had become one of the most successful and influential authors in Canadian literature. Her stories about imagination, resilience, and the search for belonging continue to inspire readers of all ages, and Anne Shirley remains one of the most recognizable characters in children's fiction. Through generations of readers, Montgomery's work has encouraged appreciation for storytelling, nature, and the emotional richness of ordinary life. Her legacy also includes a vast body of diaries and correspondence that document the challenges faced by a professional woman writer in the early twentieth century. Institutions such as the L. M. Montgomery Institute have continued to examine her influence on literature culture and tourism, particularly on Prince Edward Island, where sites associated with her fiction attract visitors from many countries. Adaptations of Anne of Green Gables for film, television, and theatre have introduced new audiences to her stories, ensuring that her characters remain part of global popular culture. Though critical opinion once dismissed her as merely a writer for children, later scholarship recognized the depth of her themes and the enduring craft of her storytelling. Today she is remembered as a central figure in Canadian literature whose imaginative vision gave voice to the beauty of rural life while celebrating the hopes of young dreamers who search for belonging.

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

We listened to this while driving to, and within PEI. It just seemed the things to do. So much of the tourism for PEI is built around the legacy of this book, with products, shops, museums, etc.
We were more pleased with this book than expected. The story may speak most to girls coming of age, but it is clearly a story about a girl rather than specifically "for" children or girls. Anne is, of course, a bit larger than life, but average people rarely get books about them. The language is often clever and always descriptive; it really is well written.
As for the reading of the audiobook, she does an excellent job of creating character voices that add to, rather than detracting or distracting from the story. The exception here is the portrayal of Matthew. To convey his quiet shyness, the reader reduces volume so much that we often had to rewind and turn up the sound to discover what he had said. I would be glad to discover future audiobooks that have Susie Berneis reading to me.

[Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile · Rating 4 out of 5]

Check out my reviews on the main page of each individual book!

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anne is an adorable little girl at first, and she has a good imagination, we travel between her words, personally I want to live in Green Gables and breathe the good air there. And the author managed to make us hear the voice of Anne as a little girl of 11 years old :) With different topics and questions that we ask ourselves around this age to become a woman, she is so intelligent and mature and i love it >_<
And the cover of the book deserves its place in the museum!! she's a 16-year-old teenager accomplished and, and I think it's cool to watch her grow up in front of ours eyes 🌿✨

[Terry · Rating 3 out of 5]

8 books and took me nearly a year and a half to finish. I get easily bored in several sections so would have to put aside and read later. Finally I finished and now I want to know what became of Rilla and Ken.

[Anagha S Jahgirdar · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is about so many stories weaved into many volumes and I like the plots. It is 100 years old and some sort of disturbing because set during war. Love the before war stories. Lucy has always captured me reading her lyrical stories and also her poems.

[Shanaya Struik · Rating 3 out of 5]

I could read it with much love in it but when I came at anne of windy poplars I got pretty stuck. The way they wrote it became hard to stick to the story.

[Julia Luna · Rating 3 out of 5]

o primeiro livro até da para ler, mas depois é uma enrolação enorme, a anne fica metade do livro so descrevendo o verde da grama

[Ladie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Marked as read though I haven't read all that is in this huge anthology. Most notable and uniquely available here is Lucy Maud Montgomery's autobiography which is both highly informative and humorous. I found some of the Anne series here first then turned to the individual books for the superior format. Although I may return to it for other selections, the index is sorely lacking in this tome.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first six installments of the Anne of Green Gables series, following Anne from childhood to adult and eventually married life. A very enjoyable set of reads, fun and enjoyable in many parts, it is a shame there aren’t more trials and tribulations in them. The early books you see similar parallels with Pollyanna.

[Becki]

I feel like I've lost Anne in this book. She has passed on her charm to various children, but she's just not hte same.\n\nI still enjoy it. Just not as much as the preceding books.