In the Library
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery, 1908
- Form
- Form Novel
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Accessible
- Reading time
- Reading time 7.5 hours
- Chapters
- Chapters 38
- Length
- Length 102k words
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About the book
Matthew Cuthbert drives to the Bright River station for a boy to help with the farm, and comes home instead with a skinny orphan girl who has already renamed the pond along the road the Lake of Shining Waters. Marilla wants to send her back. Anne Shirley talks her out of it in one afternoon, simply by being unbearably, hilariously herself: breaking a slate over a boy's head for calling her carrots, dyeing her hair green trying to make it black, getting her bosom friend disastrously tipsy on what she swears was only raspberry cordial. What she does, without meaning to, is teach a rigid, unloved farmhouse how to love out loud. L.M. Montgomery understood that imagination in a child who has had nothing is not whimsy, it is survival, and that the plainest life turns luminous the moment someone insists on calling it by a better name. By the last page, whatever it costs her to grow up, you will want to have been raised at Green Gables too.