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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of the Island and Tales of Avonlea
Introduction by Ellen S. Shapiro. Anne of Green Gables is off to college! Young adults will enjoy this delightful collection, which features the novel Anne of the Islands and two short story collections, Chronicles of Avonlea and Further Chronicles of Avonlea. Black-and-white illustrations.
573 pages, Hardcover
First published March 20, 1991
About the author
L.M. Montgomery
1,757 books12.2k 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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February 17, 2020
Such a great book to have read. It totally brought me back to my child of reading the other series like it in the summertime. It's a must read:)
June 8, 2016
I’m a big Anne of Green Gables fan.. I’ve read all the books and have enjoyed Anne’s adventures. I found this book slightly confusing and honestly boring. The book was sectioned off into little short stories. I found Montgomery’s usual descriptive language lacking as I found myself lost continually in lost in the plot. The characters were flat and not enough history was given to really develop them. I certainly wouldn’t read this book again and wouldn’t recommend this book to others.
June 21, 2015
'Anne of the Island' hovers awkwardly between subverting romanticism and embodying it, but is still the charming dreamboat I loved in elementary school. Largely responsible for the illusions I had about college life.
The stories are individually charming but too similar in aggregate. How many old maids finding love does a story collection really need, after all?
The stories are individually charming but too similar in aggregate. How many old maids finding love does a story collection really need, after all?
September 19, 2014
4 stars for Anne of the Island and half of the short stories. They got exhausting at the end and I definitely took my time to finish them.
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