Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery - Unabridged - AudioBook CD
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Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, unmarried middle-aged siblings who reside together at Green Gables, a farm in the town of Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, choose to follow a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, the individual who ends up under their rooftop is a precocious girl of eleven called Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and fast, eager to please and talkative, but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her extended braids of red hair. Although wishing she was called Cordelia, she insists that in the event you are to call her Anne, it should be spelt with an 'E', as it is very "so more recognized." Being a child of imagination, nevertheless, Anne takes much joy in existence, and adapts fast, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island. She is anything of the chatterbox, and forces the prim, duty-driven Marilla to distraction, although timid Matthew falls for her instantly. The rest of the book recounts her continued knowledge at school, where she excels in research quite instantly, her budding literary dreams and her friendships with folks like Diana Barry (her right friend, "bosom friend" as Anne fondly calls her), Jane Andrews, Ruby Gillis, and her rivalry with Gilbert Blythe, who teases her about her red hair and for that acquires her hatred, although he apologizes several instances. Anne and Gilbert compete in class and Anne 1 day realizes she no longer hates Gilbert, but will likely not admit it but at the finish of the book, they both become great neighbors.
The book equally follows her misadventures in quiet, old-fashioned Avonlea. These adventures include her games with her friendship group (Diana, Jane and Ruby), her rivalries with all the Pye sisters (Gertie and Josie) and her domestic errors including dyeing her hair green. Anne, together with Gilbert, Ruby, Josie, Jane and many different pupils, eventually goes to the Queen's Academy and obtains a training license in 1 year, in addition to winning the Avery Prize in English, which enables her to follow a B.A. at Redmond College. The book ends with Matthew's death, caused by a heart attack after understanding of the reduction of all his and Marilla's funds. Anne shows her devotion to Marilla and Green Gables by providing up the Avery Prize, choosing to remain at house and aid Marilla, whose vision is diminishing, and training at the Carmody school, the closest school accessible. To show his friendship, Gilbert Blythe offers up his training position in the Avonlea School to function at White Sands School rather, therefore permitting Anne to teach at the Avonlea School and remain at Green Gables throughout the week. After this type act, Anne and Gilbert become neighbors.
About the Author L.M. Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery and publicly termed as L.M. Montgomery, (30 November 1874–24 April 1942) was a Canadian writer, right acknowledged for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. When published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, prepared Montgomery distinguished in her life and gave her an global following. The initial novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the very acclaimed 1985 CBC tv miniseries, Anne of Green Gables and many different tv films and programs, including Road to Avonlea, which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996. L.M. Montgomery worked as a instructor in numerous island universities. As effectively, beginning in 1897, she started to have her brief stories published in numerous publications and magazines. A prolific talent, Montgomery had over 100 stories published from 1897 to 1907 inclusive.
In 1898 Montgomery moved back to Cavendish to reside with her widowed grandmother. For a brief time in 1901 and 1902 she worked in Halifax for the magazines Chronicle and Echo. She returned to reside with and care for her grandmother in 1902. Montgomery was inspired to write her initial books during this time on Prince Edward Island.
In 1908, Montgomery published her initially book, Anne of Green Gables. Three years later, after her grandmother's death, she wedded Ewan (found in Montgomery's notes and letters as "Ewan") Macdonald (1870 - 1943), a Presbyterian Minister, and moved to Ontario where he had taken the position of minister of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale in present-day Uxbridge Township, additionally affiliated with all the congregation in nearby Zephyr.
Leaskdale manse, house of Lucy Maud Montgomery from 1911 to 1926 Montgomery had 3 sons: Chester Cameron Macdonald (July 7, 1912–1964); Hugh Alexander Macdonald, who was stillborn August 13, 1914 and inspired the death of Anne Shirley's initially child, Joyce, in Anne's Home of Dreams; and Ewan Stuart Macdonald (October 7, 1915–1982).
Montgomery wrote her upcoming eleven books within the Leaskdale manse. The structure was subsequently sold by the congregation and is today the Lucy Maud Montgomery Leaskdale Manse Museum. In 1926, the family moved into the Norval Presbyterian Charge, in present-day Halton Hills, Ontario, where now the Lucy Maud Montgomery Memorial Garden is watched from Highway 7.
In 1935, upon her husband's retirement, Montgomery moved to Swansea, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto, purchasing a apartment which she called "Journey's End", located found on the Humber River. Montgomery continued to write, publishing Anne of Windy Poplars in 1936, Jane of Lantern Hill in 1937, and Anne of Ingleside in 1939. In the last year of her lifetime, Montgomery completed what she intended to be a ninth book featuring Anne, titled The Blythes Are Quoted. It included fifteen brief stories (several of which were earlier published) that she revised to include Anne and her family as mostly peripheral characters; forty-one poems (almost all of which were earlier published) that she attributed to Anne and to her son Walter, who died as a soldier in the Great War; and vignettes featuring the Blythe family members discussing the poems. An abridged variation, which shortened and reorganized the stories and omitted all of the vignettes and all but among the poems, was published as a collection of brief stories The Road to Yesterday in 1974. |
