Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery the best classic that people love
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
Author
Lucy M. Montgomery
Publisher
Signet Books
Genre
Classic/Historical Fiction
Number of Pages
320
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Summary
The Cuthberts' of Green Gables want to adopt an eleven-year-old boy from the local orphanage to help Matthew on the farms.
But when Matthew arrives at the train station to pick up the lad he finds a scrawny, red-haired, freckled girl, Anne, who can’t stop talking waiting for him at the station.
Maurila wants to correct the mistake and send her back, but will she be able to?
My Review
The sweet, charming story of an orphan girl’s growing up in an equally loving, kind, and kindred household. Anne of Green Gables is like a short story collection wherein we are taken through 38 stories of Anne’s coming-of-age in Green Gables.
The story covers Anne from 11 years when she arrives at the Cuthberts’ to graduating with a scholarship at Queen’s. Although Anne has a vivid imagination and cannot hold her tongue for a long time. She is a dear, dear girl who quickly wins everyone over in Green Gables and the neighborhood.
She becomes close friends with Diana the neighbor’s daughter and has her share of mischiefs and naughty doings, but her innocent and honest nature wins everyone’s hearts every time. My favorite story was the one of the emerald/amethyst brooch that belongs to Maurila which Anne becomes besotted. The story shows both Anne’s innocence when she confesses to a crime she did not commit and her love for having a good time when she decides to do so so that Maurila sends her to the Sunday picnic.
Her rivalry and competition with poor Gilbert are adorable. And all the characters are so believable and yet unique and very well thought of.
Final Verdict
Overall I think I have a new favorite classic after Little Women and it is Anne of Green Gables.
Who Should Read This
Classics lovers who love reading Jane Austen or Little Women should love this adorable story.
Lucy M. Montgomery
Lucy 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.
Top Quotes from Anne of Green Gables
- “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
- “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
- “True friends are always together in spirit.”
- “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
- “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
- “Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
- “People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
- “Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
- “Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
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