Anne of Green Gables

"Anne of Green Gables" is very famous story and loved all over the world .A heroine of this story Anne takes a positive attitude on at any time. She is a very strong girl, so I like her!

One of my all time favorites. I have read it a few times and will probably read it a few more. I have only gotten through to the second book in the series, but plan on reading others in the future.

Before I got married, my middle name was Anne. With an “e.” Just like Anne of Green Gables. Now my middle name is my maiden name, but that’s besides the point.I must have read Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery when I was a little girl, but all I remember is watching the movie. So I decided to get through a bunch of the Anne books, obviously starting with the first: Anne of Green Gables.Anyone who knows anything about Anne knows that she feels like a plain child with red hair which she despises, and that she never stops talking.For the full review (and a pic of my very old copy of the book), visit Love at First Book

I have long loved LM Montgomery's work, and I was thrilled to find this wonderful special limited edition when I visited the Anne of Green Gables Museum in Park Corner, PEI. The tome itself is a truly lovely thing. And the story -- well, in my eyes and in my heart -- the story never grows old.

This is one of my favorite books of all time. I love the beauty in Montgomery's prose, her descriptions of Prince Edward Island, and the people who live in the small town of Avonlea. But most of all, I love Anne Shirley. She is, indeed, a kindred spirit. My love for this book is so strong, it's a struggle to put into words. I feel like I don't have the capacity to describe the wonder and the joy it invokes in me every time I read it. A true classic, and I can't wait to reread the rest of the Anne books this year. Highly, highly recommended. If you haven't read this book, you are, in my opinion, missing out on one of the great pleasures of life. Five stars, and I'd give it more if Library Thing allowed it.

After many years, I have decided to revisit this classic series. My mother first introduced me to the series when I was twelve-years-old and I have read it several times since. As a younger reader "Anne of Green Gables" was always my least favourite. Now, forty years later, I was thoroughly entertained by this book. I loved all the descriptions of Green Gables and Avonlea, and the innocence of a bygone era.Matthew Cuthbert, Gilbert Blythe and Aunt Josephine were always my favourite characters, and they remained so. However, I was surprised by how much I liked Anne and Marilla. For some unknown reason, I have always remembered Marilla as a hard, unforgiving woman, but I discovered she really had a heart of gold and loved Anne as though she was her own daughter.As for Anne herself, she used to annoy me with the antics and continual talking, but this time I admired her incorrigible spirit, her love of nature, her vivid imagination and her passion for stories. In fact I found myself close to tears at times when she talked about her past life.Although written over a century ago, I found "Anne of Green Gables" a charming, delightful read which still has much appeal for today's modern readers.

You may have watched the movie, the 2-night special, or the latest adaptation on Netflix - but you haven't truly experienced Anne of Green Gables until you read the books. I read them as a pre-teen and have re-read them many times. Published well over a hundred years ago the narrative reads a tad clunky and dated at times. But I am not saying that is a bad thing. In a world filled techno-gadgets, vampires, and witches, where something is blown-up or killed every three-seconds-- it was nice to have a stress-free, relaxing reading experience. Anne is an 11-year-old orphan longing for a home to call her own. Despite her tender age, she had known heartbreak. It was how she chose to deal with it that resonates with me to this day. Anne looked for the good in everyone and everything and with her boundless imagination if she couldn't find it -- she simply created it. She had a light within her that refused to be dimmed. This is a timeless classic I cannot wait to share with my granddaughter. If you have never read this book or if it has been a while, sneak off to your favorite, comfy spot and reconnect with a simpler time.Happy Reading,RJ

I can't believe it's taken me so long to read this. I feel like somehow I missed out on an integral part of childhood by not reading this as a young girl. What a fun, charming, beautiful tale of an orphan girl and her new family. Heartwarming and entertaining. I look forward to the rest of the series.

I never read this when I was young. I can see the attraction, for the pre-teen girl, and indeed my own daughter enjoyed it. However, for an adult the story holds very little of interest. I can enjoy the descriptions of nature, but it is too preachy and has little character development except for Anne and a bit for Marilla.

Loved this as a youth and in college. Revisited it through the Craft Lit podcast. Can't wait to share it with my nieces - they should be old enough in the next few years.

We first meet Anne, an orphan who has just arrived after a long train ride. We are told that she is thin, poorly dressed, and not good looking. None of this matters, as soon as we we hear her "voice" we know we are in the presence of a great mind. This young girl is captivating and engaging from the beginning of the story to the end.

I read these in middle school. I loved the series, though I never finished it. Something I look forward to reading with my daughter... maybe we can get through the entire series.

A staid old brother and sister take in an orphan with a huge imagination. I adored this book when I was little, and it has held up well. Even as an adult, I am able to enjoy it.

A charming book about life on Prince Edward Island. A favorite of many girls.

Not sure how I managed not to read this as a child. I got through the Little Women books and the 'What Katy Did' series, but never Anne of Green Gables. My mother-in-law loves it and I bought it for her recently, so read her copy on the way back to Canada from a UK trip this week. Really enjoyed it - can see why it's a classic.

I read all of the Anne books as a child, and then drifted away from them, but upon coming back I find that I still love these books. While they aren't as "meaty" as other books I could be reading, they are definitely enjoyable.

Although some of the titles that follow in this series are good, the first is the best. This novel conjures a beautiful image of life on Prince Edward Island in the early 1900s. Anne continues to charm readers nearly 100 years after its original publication.

I am probably the last adult female in the world to fall in love with Anne Shirley, but it’s finally happened. Her sweet, spunky, imaginative spirit is impossible not to fall in love with.Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery is a book I wish I’d read in childhood. I know I would have gobbled up this series just like I did the Little House books. While as a child I could relate to Laura’s tomboyishness and her location on the prairie, I now see in Anne a competitive spirit that I could have also related to, particularly with academics. It also would have been nice to have the American/Canadian contrast while I was a young girl, but at least now I know what I’ve been missing. Just as those around her were spellbound by Anne, so was I. I can’t wait to read more of the series.

This was one of my favourite books as a girl and is something I am very happy to have my children reading.

Marilla and Matthew want a boy. But they are going to live with a girl who name Anne.I love this story.This story make my heart warming.

when a orphan girl came to a house ... a family life had changed!

My favourite book of all time. I have read this book about ten times!!!!! Everyone knows Anne Shirley's story, but if you haven't read the book, you don't know what you're missing. Anne is literature's spunkiest heroine...it's hard not to love this book.

I love this book! It has been my very favorite for as long as I can remember. My Mother checked it out from the Library to read to me when I was very young. I reread the whole series on my own in High School and often watch the Kevin Sullivan Movie version of the story. It is comfort food for the soul!

I loved this book. The whole series was very enjoyable and wonderful to escape into.

The classic and stirring story of a young orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island.Anne Shirley is an awkward, ginger-haired, dreamy girl not very skilled in domestic affairs and constantly at odds with the people who run the orphanage at which she lives. Unable to entice anyone into adopting her her prospects of a life outside of the orphanage look dim until one day she is unexpectedly adopted by a family she's never met and sent to Prince Edward Island. Upon arriving she finds that the family (aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert) who she thought wanted her actually thought they were getting a boy instead.But Anne's incessant chatter and her dreamy ways got under Matthew Cuthbert's skin and he found that he couldn't bring himself to send her back. Anne is kept on and this story is the tale of her temper, her loves, her trials and her tribulations on PE Island.This is a children's classic but I've not known an adult woman who, having read these tales growing up, wasn't happy to curl up with them time and time again and seek comfort and pleasure in its warm familiar pages.This is a book that will stay with you your whole life.

I can't believe I never read this book growing up! I want to go back in time and live there and grow up like Anne and her friends did. From start to finish I was hooked.

I actually had to buy a new copy of this classic, having lost mine (and all the sequels) in a move. I bought the Aladdin Classics version that has reading circle questions at the end...very nice for the teacher in me. Reading it again only took one rainy Sunday afternoon, but it was a lovely read. I connected with Anne again just like I had as a child, when everyone used to ask if I had an 'off' button, and I was in trouble at school for talking so much. While I never broke a slate over any of my classmates heads, I did throw a desk at someone who was teasing me. And I've been fortunate to have the Auburn 'tresses' that Anne so wanted. My imagination has gotten me in fixes sometimes too...though no mice in the pudding thank goodness! I do love the Eastern Canadian feel to the book as well. Prince Edward Island becomes almost a character in the book...with Anne fascinated with the red roads, each tree and each brook equally. Anne's love of romanticism brings some intertexuality to the book in the scene of the lily maid, Elaine. I actually own an original copy of Tennyson's Poems including Idylls of the King. It was handed down to me from my grandmother's great aunts. I find its placement in Anne of Green Gables delightful. Mathhew and Marilla are both such wonderful characters as well...both so solitary, alone and seemingly to like it that way...until the whirlish dirvish red-haired Anne shows up and shakes them both up...until they both realize (Matthew sooner) that they love her...and therefore realizing that they are worthy of love as well. A lovely message that L.M. Montgomery was aiming for.For all you non-Canadians (and *gasp* any Canadians) that haven't read Anne of Green Gables I quote Anne "Oh...what you miss!"

A sentimental favorite, I suppose, but a favorite nonetheless. Some of Montgomery's later books (the other Anne books, the Emily books) are better, but this one still has lovable, humorous characters whose different worldviews make their exchanges worth reading.

Before I started this book I realized that I had never felt compelled to read this series, not even as a little girl. But then again, I never read books that little girls were "supposed" to read. When I started it, I thought straight off that Anne was going to be way too annoying. But mid-way through, I found that I was still reading and that she had a way of just staying shy of the line of annoyance that would make me put the book down forever. Bully for her.

I remember the first time I read this book - it was the night before I started 6th grade and I was too nervous about starting middle school to get to sleep. So I read. I ended up reading the whole book that night and didn't get a wink of sleep. But it was worth it. It's been favorite of mine ever since.