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Fiction · 1915

Anne of the Island

L. M. Montgomery

Reading time
about 5.5 h
Length
76,918 words · 168 pages
Structure
41 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Modern

Anne of the Island sends Anne Shirley off Prince Edward Island to Redmond College in Kingsport, where she rooms at Patty's Place with her old friend Priscilla, the practical Stella, and the delightfully superstitious chaperone Aunt Jamesina. College brings Anne a string of suitors — among them the wealthy, poetic Roy Gardner, whom she very nearly accepts — before a near-fatal illness that almost takes Gilbert Blythe forces Anne to recognize, too late by her own reckoning, what she actually feels for her oldest friend.

L. M. Montgomery published Anne of the Island in 1915, the third novel in the Anne of Green Gables series, following Anne of Avonlea (1909).

Bibliomancer publishes the 1915 text exactly as L. M. Montgomery wrote it.

Contents

  1. Note
  2. Chapter I — The Shadow of Change
  3. Chapter II — Garlands of Autumn
  4. Chapter III — Greeting and Farewell
  5. Chapter IV — April’s Lady
  6. Chapter V — Letters from Home
  7. Chapter VI — In the Park
  8. Chapter VII — Home Again
  9. Chapter VIII — Anne’s First Proposal
  10. Chapter IX — An Unwelcome Lover and a Welcome Friend
  11. Chapter X — Patty’s Place
  12. Chapter XI — The Round of Life
  13. Chapter XII — “Averil’s Atonement”
  14. Chapter XIII — The Way of Transgressors
  15. Chapter XIV — The Summons
  16. Chapter XV — A Dream Turned Upside Down
  17. Chapter XVI — Adjusted Relationships
  18. Chapter XVII — A Letter from Davy
  19. Chapter XVIII — Miss Josephine Remembers the Anne-girl
  20. Chapter XIX — An Interlude
  21. Chapter XX — Gilbert Speaks
  22. Chapter XXI — Roses of Yesterday
  23. Chapter XXII — Spring and Anne Return to Green Gables
  24. Chapter XXIII — Paul Cannot Find the Rock People
  25. Chapter XXIV — Enter Jonas
  26. Chapter XXV — Enter Prince Charming
  27. Chapter XXVI — Enter Christine
  28. Chapter XXVII — Mutual Confidences
  29. Chapter XXVIII — A June Evening
  30. Chapter XXIX — Diana’s Wedding
  31. Chapter XXX — Mrs. Skinner’s Romance
  32. Chapter XXXI — Anne to Philippa
  33. Chapter XXXII — Tea with Mrs. Douglas
  34. Chapter XXXIII — “He Just Kept Coming and Coming”
  35. Chapter XXXIV — John Douglas Speaks at Last
  36. Chapter XXXV — The Last Redmond Year Opens
  37. Chapter XXXVI — The Gardners’Call
  38. Chapter XXXVII — Full-fledged B.A.’s
  39. Chapter XXXVIII — False Dawn
  40. Chapter XXXIX — Deals with Weddings
  41. Chapter XL — A Book of Revelation
  42. Chapter XLI — Love Takes Up the Glass of Time

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About the author

L. M. Montgomery

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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