Anne of Green Gables: The Original Series (Annotated)

Six Novels — From Green Gables to the Great War | With Critical Essay and Author Biography

De: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Six novels. One life. The complete arc of the most beloved heroine in Canadian literature — from the red-haired girl who arrived uninvited at Green Gables to the woman who sent her sons to war.

Lucy Maud Montgomery published Anne of Green Gables in 1908 after years of rejection. The manuscript had been turned down so many times she had put it away in a hat box. When it finally appeared, it sold out within months and made her famous overnight. She spent the rest of her life writing sequels she hadn't planned, living a life considerably less free than the one she had imagined for Anne.

Anne of Green Gables — Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert send for a boy to help on the farm. They receive Anne Shirley instead: eleven years old, red-haired, relentlessly imaginative, and entirely impossible to send back.

Anne of Avonlea — Anne returns to Avonlea as a teacher, still making magnificent mistakes, still seeing beauty where others see inconvenience. The quietest of the six novels, and one of the most honest about what it means to grow up without losing yourself.

Anne of the Island — Anne goes to Redmond College. Gilbert Blythe goes with her. The novel everyone knows is coming — and that Montgomery delays with absolute mastery.

Anne's House of Dreams — Anne and Gilbert marry and move to a house by the sea. They meet Leslie Moore, whose life contains a grief so large it makes ordinary happiness seem indecent. Montgomery's most emotionally complex novel.

Rainbow Valley — The Meredith children run wild through the valley while their widowed father forgets to notice. Anne's children are growing up. The world is about to change in ways none of them can see.

Rilla of Ingleside — The First World War arrives in Glen St. Mary. Anne's youngest daughter grows from a girl worried about her hair into a woman who learns to hold grief as a discipline. Montgomery's most underrated novel — and her most devastating.

✦ All six novels complete and unabridged.

This edition also includes:

✦ The World of Anne Shirley: Historical Context, Literary Themes, and Enduring Legacy — an original critical essay examining Montgomery's novels within the world that produced them: rural Prince Edward Island at the turn of the century, the transitional position of women in Canadian society, the figure of the "New Woman" that Anne embodies without ever announcing it, and the literary tradition that Montgomery both inherited and transformed.

✦ About the Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) — a biographical essay on the woman behind Anne: the motherless childhood, the years of rejection, the unexpected fame, the difficult marriage to a minister prone to depression, and the private grief that ran beneath the sunny surface of the books she was known for.

For readers who enjoy:

✦ L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Elizabeth Gaskell ✦ Coming-of-age fiction about girls who refuse to become what the world expects ✦ Novels about place — where landscape is character and home is something you build, not inherit ✦ Anne of Green Gables readers ready to follow the story all the way to its heartbreaking end

Montgomery gave Anne the freedom she couldn't give herself. This edition gives you all of it.