Anne of Green Gables (Oxford Children's Classics) [Hardcover]

L. M. Montgomery (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 10, 2007 | Age Range: 9 and up | Series: Oxford Children's Classics

If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again.

Orphan Anne has always dreamed of being part of a proper family. So when she's chosen to go and live with the Cuthberts, life looks grand. But the Cuthberts wanted a little boy to help them on Green Gables farm, not a girl. They cannot keep her.

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About the Author

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a popular Canadian author in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is know for her novels, poetry, and short stories. Some of her well know titles are Anne of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and Pat of Silver Bush. She died in 1942.

Product Details

• Age Range: 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Reprint edition (September 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192720007
• ISBN-13: 978-0192720009
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1 x 7.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,354 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lucy Maude Montgomery (1874-1942) was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the setting for Anne of Green Gables. She left to attend college, but returned to Prince Edward Island to teach. In 1911, she married the Reverend Ewan MacDonald. Anne of Green Gables, the first in a series of "Anne" books by Montgomery, was published in 1908 to immediate success and continues to be a perennial favorite.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A tale of a red girl that my three daughters read ove and over again December 10, 2009

By William Eggers

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Anne of Green Gables is one the great childrens books. It is an epic tale filled with rich wonderful characters and is a magical journey for any young reader to take.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent February 25, 2012

By Anabel

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Anne of Green Gables is a great story to read and re-read, it is a book that you must have in your personal library, it can be read at any age. I love this edition by Oxford Children's Classics, I consider it the best.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Story... September 17, 2011

By D. S. Thurlow TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Hardcover

Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic 1908 novel "Anne of Green Gables" continues to captivate readers of all ages with its heart-warming story of an orphan girl coming of age on a farm in rural Prince Edward Island, Canada.

As the story opens, middle-aged bachelor Matthew Cuthbert and his spinster sister Marilla decide to take in an orphan boy to help out on their farm in the village of Avonlea. By mistake, the orphanage sends a scrawny red-haired young girl named Anne Shirley. Anne has known only poverty and neglect; the Cuthberts, after some debate, elect to keep her.

Anne will be a challenge to raise. She is honest, obedient, and hardworking; she is also prone to being distracted by her own imagination. The result is a series of often hilarious misadventures as she grows up.

Anne will make friends in Avonlea, including best friend Diana Barry. She will be spurred to academic excellence by rival and admirer Gilbert Blythe. At the end of the novel, she will earn a rare opportunity to go to college. However, when death strikes her foster family, the sixteen year-old Anne will suddenly have to make mature choices about her family and future.

"Anne of Green Gables" is very highly recommended as an entertaining reading experience. It is also the first of a series of novels about the life and adventures of Anne Shirley, also highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars Lives changed June 1, 2013

By Alice Buck

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A simple mistake brought an orphan girl instead of an orphan boy to Green Gables, and she and the adult brother and sister who took her in were all the better for it. I never read this until I was an adult and visited the area during a cruise stop. I decided to get it for my great-granddaughters and hope they enjoy it enough to want to read the sequel.

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just for Young Girls April 22, 2012

By John VINE™ VOICE

Format:Hardcover

I got married this spring, to a woman who loved and obsessed over Anne of Green Gables when she was younger. We are going this summer to Prince Edward Island on a trip on which she can pretty fully indulge in her Anne Shirley fantasies. :) In preparation for our trip, I agreed to read Anne of Green Gables, which I, although reading plenty as a child, missed because I was a boy. Even though I agreed to read it, I didn't have the highest expectations for the novel. I had enjoyed the movie as a child and so assumed that I would like it, but I ended up being utterly charmed. This is much more than a girl book.

I guess it's just impossible not to be sucked in by the idyllic world of the novel. A spirited, humorous, and kind orphan girl who enlivens life for everyone she encounters. Two solid, if unimaginative, old siblings who find their world turned upside down by this spirit that they could never have imagined. A beautiful setting that is beautifully rendered. It's an almost archetypal paradise that's inescapably appealing.

And the writing is simply beautiful. I kept marveling at how the novel worked so well despite my having remembered most of the scenes from the movie. It did just because the prose was so vivid and graceful. The natural descriptions were brilliant, but not overwrought. The dialogue and humor were sharp. The emotions weren't maudlin but were perfect-pitched and authentic.

Another writer could not have written this book. It is a true classic that is not just for young girls.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Story... September 15, 2011

A Kid's Review

Format:Hardcover

Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic 1908 novel "Anne of Green Gables" continues to captivate readers of all ages with its heart-warming story of an orphan girl coming of age on a farm in rural Prince Edward Island, Canada.

As the story opens, middle-aged bachelor Matthew Cuthbert and his spinster sister Marilla decide to take in an orphan boy to help out on their farm in the village of Avonlea. By mistake, the orphanage sends a scrawny red-haired young girl named Anne Shirley. Anne has known only poverty and neglect; the Cuthberts, after some debate, elect to keep her.

Anne will be a challenge to raise. She is honest, obedient, and hardworking; she is also prone to being distracted by her own imagination. The result is a serious of often hilarious misadventures as she grows up.

Anne will make friends in Avonlea, including best friend Diana Barry. She will be spurred to academic excellence by rival and admirer Gilbert Blythe. At the end of the novel, she will earn a rare opportunity to go to college. However, when death strikes her foster family, the sixteen year-old Anne will suddenly have to make mature choices about her family and future.

"Anne of Green Gables" is very highly recommended as an entertaining reading experience. It is also the first of a series of novels about the life and adventures of Anne Shirley, also highly recommended.