Fiction · 1908
Anne of Green Gables
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, an elderly brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm, send for an orphan boy to help with the work; the orphanage sends a red-haired, talkative girl instead. L. M. Montgomery’s first novel, published in 1908, was an immediate success and has remained one of the most read books in Canadian literature.
Anne Shirley’s imagination, temper and ambition, and the slow thawing of Marilla, are the book’s whole subject; there is no villain and hardly any plot. The island landscape, which Montgomery knew from childhood, is drawn with exactness.
The thirty-eight chapters are given complete, from the day the train comes in to the bend in the road.
Contents
- Chapter I — Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised
- Chapter II — Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised
- Chapter III — Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
- Chapter IV — Morning at Green Gables
- Chapter V — Anne’s History
- Chapter VI — Marilla Makes Up Her Mind
- Chapter VII — Anne Says Her Prayers
- Chapter VIII — Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun
- Chapter IX — Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified
- Chapter X — Anne’s Apology
- Chapter XI — Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-school
- Chapter XII — A Solemn Vow and Promise
- Chapter XIII — The Delights of Anticipation
- Chapter XIV — Anne’s Confession
- Chapter XV — A Tempest in the School Teapot
- Chapter XVI — Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
- Chapter XVII — A New Interest in Life
- Chapter XVIII — Anne to the Rescue
- Chapter XIX — A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
- Chapter XX — A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
- Chapter XXI — A New Departure in Flavorings
- Chapter XXII — Anne Is Invited Out to Tea
- Chapter XXIII — Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor
- Chapter XXIV — Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert
- Chapter XXV — Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves
- Chapter XXVI — The Story Club Is Formed
- Chapter XXVII — Vanity and Vexation of Spirit
- Chapter XXVIII — An Unfortunate Lily Maid
- Chapter XXIX — An Epoch in Anne’s Life
- Chapter XXX — The Queen’s Class Is Organized
- Chapter XXXI — Where the Brook and River Meet
- Chapter XXXII — The Pass List Is Out
- Chapter XXXIII — The Hotel Concert
- Chapter XXXIV — A Queen’s Girl
- Chapter XXXV — The Winter at Queen’s
- Chapter XXXVI — The Glory and the Dream
- Chapter XXXVII — The Reaper Whose Name Is Death
- Chapter XXXVIII — The Bend in the Road
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1874–1942 · Modern
L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942), Lucy Maud Montgomery, was born on Prince Edward Island and raised there by her grandparents after her mother’s death. She taught school, worked for a Halifax newspaper, and wrote stories for magazines before Anne of Green Gables (1908) made her internationally known; seven more Anne books and many others followed, including the Emily trilogy. She married a Presbyterian minister in 1911 and lived in Ontario for the rest of her life.
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