I could award a prize to L.M. Montgomery, for her books in my library waiting longest to be read. My Godmother sent two boxsets in 1986, after moving to Prince Edward Island. I only knew this literary legend by name. I postponed it, dreading an orphanage scenario. I planned to acquaint the début this year, 2020. My brother asked if his daughter may have mine, thus I finally opened book one!

As a writer, I am inspired by Maud’s mastery of words. I treasure plants and natural tableaux. I greet each of my plants with Anne Shirley’s loving familiarity! She was talkative, only in the face of spare conversationalists. I thought it odd that her adopters were siblings. I hated Marilla for not rejoicing in Anne’s adoption anniversary. Otherwise, this was carefree; a rare aspect I favour. I was relieved there was no meanness at home or school, only a little clashing of characters.

My friend, Kerri, marvelled at being swept away without action. Describing emotions makes everything exciting. Life is made of personal achievements. When Anne competed for scholarships in Avonlea and in university; I could not have been more riveted! It is no surprise that I love “Anne Of Green Gables”!

It is inspiring, how well Anne’s sincerity won over quiet and stern hearts. I was relieved there was no fuss about spelling her name. “E” was only mentioned twice. I am happy there are sequels to savour. My 9 year-old niece is keen about these Canadian classics, the most recent gals to this party.

Wading into this wellspring of fans was brightened further by Kerri and Leeanne. After only buddy-reading twice in 2014, it is a respite to share stories regularly in a tough year. I love bending our imaginations in tandem to all manners of life.

"I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does."

I cried, I laughed, and I fell in love.

I grew up watching these movies because my mom just absolutely loves them but I've never really been that interested in reading the book. I knew I'd read it someday but it wasn't a top priority at all. I had to read this for my can lit course this semester and boy am I ever glad for that. I absolutely adored this story. Anne is such a darling and she just makes me look at the world differently and want to use my imagination more, she makes me feel like a kid again. I loved all the characters and the writing was fantastic. The ending just made me want to read the rest of the series! LOVED IT!

Since I just completed books three to eight of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series over the past few days (all of the novels rereads in order to finally post reviews), I thought that I might as well also peruse both Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea once more for a sense of true completion (and yes indeed, visually and intellectually devouring the entire eight novel series from last Saturday to now Wednesday morning has been delightful, a bit exhausting to be sure, as I was actually often staying up all night reading, but definitely most sweetly enjoyable, and this even for those very few books of Anne of Green Gables series which I now do not or do no longer like all that much anymore). And indeed, simply rating L.M. Montgomery's's Anne of Green Gables is (for me at least) ridiculously easy (five well deserved stars, and a permanent residence on my favourites shelf). But that being said, and unfortunately, posting an actual review has proven both daunting and exceedingly difficult, for how do I review a favourite both childhood and adulthood comfort read in a way that is even remotely adequate, that not only shows my deep and lasting appreciation of and for Anne of Green Gables (and L.M. Montgomery as an author) whilst also providing an analysis, a presentation that is more than simply a gushing and unserious book love declaration Therefore while I have finally decided (while I have finally dared) to post a review, I already suspect, I already kind of know that the latter will in no way be worthy of either Anne of Green Gables or author L.M. Montgomery (at least according to my own rather exacting academic standards). But I do hope that my poor words, my musings, will at least prove sufficient to stimulate interest, especially amongst those of you who have not as yet read this sweet and poignant classic of Canadian children's literature (and its sequels). And suffice it to say that I obviously most strongly recommend Anne of Green Gables for anyone (both children and adults), just as I also and with equal strength of conviction recommend both the sequels and really almost everything penned by L.M. Montgomery (and yes, even those L.M. Montgomery novels that I tend to find problematic I still generally do highly recommend).

What, and speaking here as an older adult who has read and reread Anne of Green Gables at least ten or more times since the early 80s, continues to astound, continues to most pleasantly amaze, is that although Anne of Green Gables is now over a century old (it was first published in 1908), many if not most of its themes are still remarkably fresh and actually even current, recent. Anne Shirley's starved for love childhood, her sad and lonely life before she arrives at Green Gables as a penniless and in most ways also friendless orphan (and although Anne's past is never dwelt on in much detail, it is still nevertheless always clearly palpable and present between the lines of Montgomery's narrative), her struggles to settle in at Green Gables and Avonlea (which actually kind of goes both ways, as the Cuthberts and the residents of Avonlea also have to get used to Anne, her ways, her behaviours and, of course, her often overactive imagination) these are all problems, these are all potential issues that if one considers, if one thinks outside of the proverbial box so to speak are not really that much different from those faced by recent refugees settling in a new country, children who are adopted or placed into foster care (even simply immigrating, moving to a new city, changing schools and such can present similar challenges both then and now). And fortunately, most laudably, L.M. Montgomery (while of course first and foremost on Anne's side and presenting Anne's point of view, Anne's story, Anne's hopes, despairs and feelings) also clearly acknowledges and demonstrates the difficulties, the both humorous and also potentially serious issues and scenarios that Anne's arrival in PEI, at Green Gables, causes for Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, Rachel Lynde, the school teacher, basically the entire small town of Avonlea.

Now when I first read Anne of Green Gables as a teenager (and yes, even during my first few rereads of the novel in my early 20s), while I absolutely adored and appreciated Anne, Matthew and even Marilla to a point, I had a critical if not actually a rather nasty and frustrated response and attitude towards the character of Rachel Lynde; all I could see was her tendency towards gossip and that she was often rather majorly judgmental. But the rather obvious fact and truth that many of the residents of Avonlea, including Marilla Cuthbert, are not only similarly disposed as Rachel Lynde, but that in many ways, especially Marillla is actually much more unbending and considerably more of a martinet with regard to child raising and discipline than Rachel, that realisation has come to me slowly, but always increasingly surely. And in fact (although Anne Shirley herself and perhaps even L.M. Montgomery as author might well chafe at this assessment), Rachel Lynde as a character, as a person, is actually also rather akin and alike to Anne Shirley in many important, essential ways, and vice versa. Yes, Anne definitely has more imagination and more of a sense for the poetic, but both Anne and Rachel are curious, take pleasure in speaking their minds and also often say the wrong things at the wrong times (albeit of course, in Anne of Green Gables, this is more publicly accepted of Rachel Lynde, as she is an adult and a respected member of Avonlea society, while with regard to Anne Shirely, she is not only a newcomer and an orphan, but there also exists the traditional and oh so majorly annoying dictum that children should be seen but not heard).

And while many Avonlea residents do at least privately consider Rachel Lynne somewhat of a busybody, if you really read between the lines of Anne of Green Gables, if you actually delve into the bowels of L.M. Montgomery's text, Rachel Lynde, even with all of her faults, cares deeply for Avonlea and her fellow man/woman (and in an almost matriarchal and all encompassing manner). And unlike Marilla, for example, Rachel firmly believes that there is not one way of raising children (and that Marilla dressing Anne so shabbily and plainly will likely NOT cause Anne to embrace a spirit of humility, but rather lead to jealously and envy). Thus while Marilla generally and rather strictly (at least until the end of Anne of Green Gables) tries to engage in the ancient and much annoying and often counterproductive attitude that one should be generous with one's criticism and more, no very, miserly with one's praise of children, of people, Rachel Lynde firmly and strongly believes that one should give praise when and where this is due, a life affirming and supportive philosophy she not only believes in, but resolutely practices and adheres to.

Finally, I also do NOT in any way think that Anne of Green Gables is perfect as a novel, that there are not some minor authorial weaknesses present (it does NOT change my love and appreciation for both story and author, it is simply a reality of which I am aware and that I willingly accept and embrace). For while I have in general always adored and actually often passionately loved L.M. Montgomery's charactisations, her literary ability to present living and breathing characters with whom I can easily and readily identify (even if for some of these characters, some of these depicted, crafted individuals, I might not like them on a personal level, even if for some of them, I might even much despise them), I guess for me, there is one main exception to this, as the only Montgomery characters which I (and not just in the Anne of Green Gables series either) tend to often find a bit wooden and lacking in personality are boys (not toddlers, but male children from around the ages of ten or so until young adult). Now I do realise that this is a bit overly simple and even generalising, but especially in the Anne series, and particularily in the first two books of said series, the diverse Avonlea schoolboys who both taunt and are sweet on Anne Shirely, they always seem (at least to me) to be somewhat lacking in brilliance and character (not only compared with and to Anne, but in fact compared with and to many of the other teenaged Avonlea girls as well, such as Diana Barry, Jane Andrews, Ruby Gillis and even an enemy of Anne's like Josie Pye). I just do not personally find Charley Sloane, Moody Spurgeon et al all that interestingly and attractively portrayed (and while that might have been a deliberate narrative strategy by Montgomery in order to focus more on Gilbert Blythe, even Gilbert Blythe, I tend to find rather insipid and much too commonplace in both Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, too standard, and even tedious as a character and this actually continues until Anne and he get married, until Anne's House of Dreams, although I agree that Gilbert does begin to show just a wee bit more promise in Anne of the Island).

“Oh, I don’t mean just the tree; of course it’s lovely—yes, it’s radiantly lovely—it blooms as if it meant it—but I meant everything, the garden and the orchard and the brook and the woods, the whole big dear world. Don’t you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? And I can hear the brook laughing all the way up here. Have you ever noticed what cheerful things brooks are? They’re always laughing. Even in winter-time I’ve heard them under the ice. I’m so glad there’s a brook near Green Gables. Perhaps you think it doesn’t make any difference to me when you’re not going to keep me, but it does. I shall always like to remember that there is a brook at Green Gables even if I never see it again. If there wasn’t a brook I’d be haunted by the uncomfortable feeling that there ought to be one. I’m not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn’t it a splendid thing that there are mornings? But I feel very sad. I’ve just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

I swear this is a rare French edition of Anne of Green Gables:

I jest, but Anne's motormouth gabbing at Green Gables almost unmanned me. Not only does she never shut up, the twee nonsense she was carping on and on about made me cringe so hard I thought I was going to morph into an accordion. Fiddlesticks indeed! I did consider dropping the book after a few pages of Anne’s mind boggling loquaciousness but something about the book grabbed me when I wasn't looking. There is something rather compelling about the narrative which I could not quite put my finger on at that point, so I kept on reading. I am glad I did.

This is going to make me sound terribly ignorant but I never heard of Anne of Green Gables until I read that Netflix was about to air a new adaptation of it. This piqued my interest because it is clearly not a kickass show like most of their recent series. Then I looked up the book on Librivox.org and I found that they have an audiobook of it, read by the excellent Karen Savage. That sealed the deal for me; it is free to read (or listen to) after all, there is no risk in giving it a shot.

First published in 1908 Anne of Green Gables is about an orphan named Anne Shirley who is adopted by an old woman called Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew. They wanted to adopt a boy to help Matthew with his farm work but through some kind of snafu, the orphanage sent them a girl instead. Marilla wants to send her back immediately but kindhearted Matt enjoys listening to Anne’s crazy-ass chatter. Soon, however, Anne’s peculiar charms begin to get under her skin and she changes her mind. So Anne gets to live with them at their Green Gables house in Avonlea, a little town on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Pastoral mayhem ensues.

Anne and her BFF Diana, art by Kasia1989

It took longer with me than with Marilla but Anne eventually got under my skin too. In spite of being bloody irritating she is interesting and her “joie de vivre”, fearlessness and optimism are infectious. I also enjoy the episodic scrapes she gets into over several chapters: almost breaking her neck, almost drowning, accidentally dyeing her hair green, breaking a slate over a boy's head etc. In George Elliott's lovely  Silas Marner Elliott mentions an “unfolding of the soul” that resonates with me, it describes the life-changing effect that the introduction of a child into your life has on your perspective, your attitude, your behavior, and your very soul. There is an identical process going on in Anne of Green Gables with the hitherto terse and practical Marilla. I love this theme and enjoyed reading about her gradual transformation. As for Anne’s nonsensical chatter I become desensitized to it after a while and I was happy to let Anne be Anne. The timeline of the book also spans more years than I expected, I thought it was going to be about Anne getting into scrapes after scrapes until the book ends somehow, and that would have been alright with me. However, it turns out that the book depicts Anne’s coming of age, her gradual development from the age of eleven to sixteen. By the end of the book, Anne is much more mature and not so manic.

There is a lighthearted and warm tone to Lucy Maud Montgomery which is a pleasure to read. This is “a book for all ages” so it is not exactly challenging to read. The characterization is very well done. The central characters are all believable and even lovable. The book actually becomes quite poignant towards the end and I closed the book with a happy sigh. There are eight sequels to this book I doubt I will read them all but I would be quite happy to check in on Anne again before too long.


Notes:
• I am a fan of Ms. Karen Savage’s audiobook narrations, she has such a pleasant reading voice. Her narration of Anne of Green Gables is her best yet. Her love for this book really comes through in her enthusiastic and passionate delivery. I am ever so grateful. (Download page).

• Anne of Green Gables became so popular and such an important symbol of freedom in Poland that the Polish army issued a copy to every soldier before WWII.

• Anne of Green Gables is a sort of Canadian  Secret Garden or  Silas Marner.

• This book is not as widely read as I thought, my extremely well read BFF Cecily has never heard of it until this review, which probably means at least 50% of the world's reading population haven't. Have a look at the Netflix trailer, see if it's your thing (though there's more angst in the TV show than in the book).

• Ten things Anne of Green Gables taught this Guardian journo.

• Netflix’s adaptation (called Anne with an “E”) has been described as “gritty”, the grits are of their own manufacture; there is about as much grit in Anne of Green Gables as you would find in an average glass of milk. Amybeth McNulty who plays Anne is a fantastic young actress, her portrayal of Anne is top notched. The show looks good but I have to say I don't like the additional dark materials they put in, I think it is tonally at odds with the spirit of the book. I have seen a couple of episodes so far and a fairly minor incident in the book is blown up into a huge melodrama with a galloping horse chasing a train! (See message #17 by Tracey below for more details. Thanks, Tracey!

Das kleine Waisenmädchen Anne wird adoptiert und bekommt ein neues Zuhause auf einer Farm. Eigentlich wollten ihre Adoptiveltern einen Jungen adoptieren und sie überlegen schon, Anne zurückzubringen, doch dann kann Anne sie mit ihrer lebendigen und liebenswürdigen Art doch verzaubern und sie behalten sie. Anne bringt viel Trubel in den Haushalt, denn sie ist wissbegierig, fantasievoll und steckt voller Ideen. Doch Anne ist auch einfach liebenswert.

By the time I was in my late teens, my copy of Anne of Green Gables was dogeared many times over... I loved the tale of Anne Shirley and later in my 20s discovered the rest of the series. Definitely one of my top 10 children's books. Despite the time period, Anne tackles the same kinds of problems we all do- jealousy, pride and peer pressure.

Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.

Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley is an orphan girl in need of a family. She may be scrawny and freckled with red hair but she’s also loving and bright with imagination. When she’s mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, elderly siblings who plan to adopt a young boy to help around their farm, Anne faces the prospect of securing a home and a loving family – if she can prove she’s worth keeping.

First published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has long enchanted readers, young and old alike. How could it not with such an effervescent heroine at its heart? Anne is a delightful companion with which to explore the splendor of Green Gables and the quaint town of Avonlea (a fictional town modeled after Montgomery’s hometown of Cavendish in the maritime province of Prince Edward Island, Canada). Montgomery crafts such stunning descriptions of the terrain that her prose risks outshining Anne. With descriptive language that titillates the senses and the imagination, Montgomery brings the rustic setting of Avonlea to life. Gypsy winds, perfumed air, dew-wet ferns, woodland blooms, and trees adorned with glimmering gossamer are just the beginning of the wondrous discoveries made by Anne during her “raptured voyages of exploration.”

It was a pretty road, running along between snug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive through or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom. The air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows sloped away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple.

Wild cherry trees and rose bushes grow unfettered, and the birds are always singing, but one gets the sense that Anne Shirley could find happiness and adventure no matter where she goes, whether she be surrounded by beauty or not. Even though Anne’s story is recounted through an omniscient narrator, readers experience wonder of the world as if through Anne’s eyes. At every turn, her personality overflows and her indomitable spirit knows no bounds. She’s an eloquent child with an adoration for big words; “if you have big ideas,” Anne insists, “you have to use big words to express them.” She speaks in a refined manner that belies her age and can always be counted on to impart wisdom.

You can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Anne is a loquacious child with long-winded stints of dialogue. This trait was less noticeable when reading the book as a young girl and proved slightly annoying during this re-read as an adult. It’s a defining quality of Anne’s personality, however, something one cannot help but eventually love about her. There’s a comforting predictability to Anne’s bubbling personality; readers can always be certain that her uplifting thoughts and sophisticated proclamations will boil over and spill from her mouth with abandon. Matthew Cuthbert, much to his own surprise, finds Anne’s chatter quite pleasant.

Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it. Be he had never expected to enjoy the society of a little girl.

Matthew Cuthbert is described as an “odd-looking personage” with an “ungainly figure.” He’s a shy, quiet man who is made uncomfortable by most women, taking exception only to his sister and their gossipy neighbor who lives a quarter-mile away, Mrs. Rachel Lynde.

Women were bad enough in all conscience, but little girls were worse. He detested the way they had of sidling past him timidly, with sidewise glances, as if they expected him to gobble them up at a mouthful if they ventured to say a word.

He’s quite taken aback to discover a girl in place of the boy he expected to retrieve from the train station, but he’s too kindhearted (and too cowardly) to leave her behind. He decides to escort her back to Green Gables so that his sister can “tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake.”

Marilla Cuthbert exudes none of the warmth found in her brother. She’s a practical woman, tall and thin “with angles and without curves,” who furrows her brows at wastefulness and excess.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

Marilla insists that Anne be returned to the orphanage. When Anne asks if Marilla would keep her if she were a more attractive child, Marilla replies simply, “No. We want a boy to help Matthew on the farm. A girl would be of no use to us.” Despite her stern countenance, Marilla agrees to accommodate Anne for the night and decides that, rather than sleep on the couch prepared in the kitchen chamber for the anticipated boy, Anne should sleep in the east gable room.

While Anne sleeps, Matthew and Marilla discuss what to do about the “odd little figure” with the “long braids of red hair and the eager luminous eyes.” Marilla is quite determined not to keep her, while Matthew reveals he’s already warming to Anne’s irresistible charms.

“Matthew Cuthbert, you don’t mean to say you think we ought to keep her!”
Marilla’s astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head.
“Well now, no, I suppose not – not exactly,” stammered Matthew, uncomfortably driven into a corner for his precise meaning. “I suppose – we could hardly be expected to keep her.”
“I should say not. What good would she be to us?”
“We might be some good to her,” said Matthew suddenly and unexpectedly.

And therein lies Anne’s challenge: She must make herself useful around the farm and prove herself worthy of a home at Green Gables by staying out of trouble. But Anne and trouble go together like spring flowers and honey bees. Be it contending with Marilla’s practicality, navigating the politics of a new school, solving the mystery of pesky boys, or trying to make new friends as an ungainly orphan girl, trouble is never far behind the efforts of Anne Shirley.

If Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert can find it in their hearts to cherish this little girl, their lives will be made richer for it. And if Anne can stay out of trouble, she might just find a loving home in a beautiful place.

With lovely prose and an unforgettable heroine, Anne of Green Gables is an endearing book brimming with scope for the imagination.

Maybe closer to 4.5 stars, but it's so sweet, who can do that to Anne? This was such a warm, welcoming read. It has very little friction, very little to keep your from melting into its prose and getting familiar with its characters. It is certainly a children's story and one from the 1900s, so it has its quirks and its strong morals and its lessons learned, but honestly, it was perfect weekday reading. This will be filed away under being regretful I didn't come to this as a child myself and also as reading for any future, hypothetical children.

Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.

عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «آن شرلی با موهای قرمز»؛ «آنی شرلی در گرین گیبلز»؛ «آنی در گرین گیبل»؛ «دختر خانه سبز»؛ «آنی رویای سبز»؛ «آنی در گرین گیبل»؛ «دختر خانه سبز»؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و پنجم ماه سپتامبر سال 2012میلادی

عنوان: آن شرلی با موهای قرمز؛ نویسنده: ال.ام. مونتگمری؛ مترجم: امیرحسین علمشاهی؛ ویراستار: محمد سیفی؛ تبریز رهیافت، 1379؛ شابک9649020845؛ عنوانهای دیگر: آنی رویای سبز؛ آنی در گرین گیبل؛ دختر خانه سبز؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان کانادا - سده 20م

عنوان: آنی شرلی در گرین گیبلز - کتاب اول؛ نویسنده: لوسی ماد ال.ام مونتگمری؛ مترجم: سارا قدیانی؛ تهران، قدیانی، 1386؛ در 495ص، نقشه، مجموعه آنی شرلی - کتاب اول؛ چاپ دوم 1387؛ چاپ سوم 1388؛ چاپ هفتم 1392؛ شابک 9789645365880؛

آنی شرلی در گرین گیبلز، نخستین جلد از سری داستان‌های «آن شرلی»، اثر «لوسی ماد مونتگمری» است؛ در این کتاب، «آن شرلی» یک دختربچه ی دوازده ساله، پای به «گرین گیبلز» می‌گذارد؛ «ماریلا»، و «متیو کاتبرت»، خواهر و برادری مزرعه‌ دار، و صاحب «گرین گیبلز» هستند؛ آنها تصمیم می‌گیرند، سرپرستی پسربچه ی ده-یازده ساله‌ ای را، به عهده بگیرند، اما کسیکه مسئولیت داشته، یتیم مورد نظر آنها را، از یتیم‌خانه به «گرین گیبلز» ببرد، به اشتباه، دختربچه‌ ای به نام «آن شرلی» را، که والدینش را در سه ماهگی، از دست داده، به «گرین گیبلز» می‌آورد، و «آنی»، در آنجا ماندگار می‌شود، و به جای یاری به «متیو» در کشاورزی، به «ماریلا»، در خانه‌ داری، کمک می‌کند، و ماجراهایی به وجود میاورد؛ او دوستی به نام «داینا بری»، دارد، دو دوست، از هم جدا میشوند، ولی آن دو هماره، کوشش دارند، به دوستی خویش پایبند بمانند.؛ ...؛

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 22/08/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 13/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

به نظرم کمتر کسی هست از دهه‌ی شصت که آن‌شرلی اون به دنیای کودکیش پرت نکنه، هر لحظه منتظر دیدن سریالش نبوده باشه. خیلی وقت بود که دلم می‌خواست به یاد اون دوران این مجموعه رو بخونم که بلاخره قسمت شد و شروع کردم. در این جلد جریان به سرپرستی گرفتن آنی توسط ماریلا و متیو کاتبرت، ورودش به گرین گیبلز، تحصیلاتش در مدرسه و ارتباط خوبی که با معلمش داره و آشنایی با دایانا و بقیه‌ی شیرین کاری‌های بامزش، خیال‌پردازی‌هاش و مکالماتش با ماریلا خیلی برام شیرین بود. به نظرم این مجموعه برای نوجوانان بالای ۱۲ سال هم خیلی مفید می‌تونه باشه.

"Well now, she's a real interesting little thing," persisted Matthew.

Truer words were never spoken when the whirlwind known as Anne Shirley comes to live with siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at Green Gables.

In one terrific example of cosmic trickery, the Cuthberts, who were hoping to adopt a boy to help out around the farm, are sent instead a garrulous and imaginative, red-headed girl. Matthew takes to her immediately. Marilla needs some convincing.

"Matthew Cuthbert, you don't mean to say you think we ought to keep her!"

Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head.

"Well now, no, I suppose not -- not exactly," stammered Matthew, uncomfortably driven into a corner for his precise meaning. "I suppose -- we could hardly be expected to keep her."

"I should say not. What good would she be to us?"

"We might be some good to her," said Matthew suddenly and unexpectedly.

Poor Anne, who has spent her brief life in foster homes caring for the children of drunkards, or penned up in an orphan's asylum, is devastated.

"You don't want me!" she cried. "You don't want me because I'm not a boy!"

But, of course she gets to stay, and as Matthew predicts, they are indeed good for her. The surprising thing is how good she is for them. Anne's unbounded enthusiasm for the world around her is infectious, and before long, Marilla finds herself reminded of the young girl she once was.

"All sorts of mornings are interesting, don't you think? You don't know what's going to happen through the day, and there's so much scope for imagination."


Imagine Anne's delight at seeing Prince Edward Island for the first time.

If you ever need a reminder of how amazing the world can be, look no further than Montgomery and her plucky, indomitable heroine.


Green Gables


This book is my comfort food - my grilled cheese with tomato soup, my hot chocolate on a cold winter's day, my cupcakes with sugary frosting.

"Dear old world," she murmured, "you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you."


First read in 1986. Fourth reading 8/15/2023.

من كل هذا الشقاء والتعاسة يتولد كل هذا الأمل
يقال فاقد الشئ لا يعطيه لكن بالعكس فاقد الشئ هو أكثر من يعطيه لأنه أكثر من شعر بألم فقدانه

آن شيرلي أو صاحبة الشعر الأحمر فتاة يتيمة عانت من طفولة قاسية في منازل الغرباء ودور الأيتام .. تشرق حياتها ويأتي بصيص أمل لها عندما ترسل بالخطأ إلي شقيقين في منتصف العمر ماثيو وماريلا كثبرت اللذان كانا ينويان تبني صبي لتأتي آن وتبدأ فصل جديد من حياتها
رواية جمعت كل لطف العالم فهي كتبت لكل الأعمار وليس الصغار فقط مليئة بالمرح والأمل فشخصية آن كتبت بعناية وهي مرحة ومبهجة خيالها واسع بالرغم من كل ماعنته في حياتها تطلق العنان لخيالها أحببت أيضا في الرواية وصف المكان والأجواء الريفية الرائعة في المرتفعات الخضراء
عامة الرواية لطيفة جدا ورائعة وشخصية آن هي الأجمل ولو أن هناك شخصية روائية أتمني أن أراها في الحياة الواقعية ستكون آن شيرلي لأقول لها : لست وحيدة يا جميلتي فطيبة قلبك وعفويتك سيفتحوا لك كل طرق الأمل كما سيفتحوا لك كل القلوب ❤