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لوسي مونتجمري أودعت روحها في هذه الرواية بلا ريب. أنا مسحورة بها منذ قرأتها. إلى الآن، لم أجد ما يماثلها في النفوذ إلى أعماقي -أتحدث مثل آن-.
آن شيرلي، الجنية الصغيرة، حمراء الشعر، ذات الوجه المنمَّش.
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إلى جزيرة الأمير إدوارد، تحديدا غرين غيبلز في أڤونليا، تذهب آن من الملجأ إلى هناك بسبب "غلطة"، إذ إن الأخوان كوثبيرت، ماثيو وماريلا كان طلبهما ولد يساعدهما في أعمال الحقل، يربيانه ويعيش معهما. تؤثر آن فيهم فيقرران الإبقاء عليها. شيئًا فشيئًا يتحول غرين غيبلز إلى بيت دافئ، مليء بالثرثرة والأمل، ويشعر الأخوان أن البيت لم يكن موجودًا كما هو الآن قبل مجيئها.
إذا كنت "تشعر أنك في أعماق اليأس" أعطِ بعض الوقت لهذه الرواية، اسمع آن وهي تبكي، وهي تحلم، وهي تغضب، وهي تتسبب في المشاكل.

لم أسمع في حياتي أصوات الشخصيات والطبيعة كما سمعتها هنا، كنت عند البحيرة البيضاء المتلألئة، وسمعت همس أوراق ملكة الثلج، وانساب صوت العصافير في أذني في تناغم مع ظلال الاشجار المتحركة على درب البهجة الأبيض. سمعت آن وهي تكلم نفسها، وامتلأ قلبي عطفًا حين سمعت بحة صوت ماريلا وهي تهتف: "آهٍ يا ابنتي البارَّة !"

آن بحرف ال"إي" في نهايتها، أعطيها خمس نجمات لأنها أسعدتني، لا، تلك كلمة غير مناسبة، بل أبهجتني، نعم أبهجتني، وأعادتني لأيام جميلة، هل كنت طفلة يوما ما؟ لا أتذكر، لكنّني أتمنى حقا أن أكون قد حظيت بطفولة بنكهة "آن" وخيالاتها وثرثرتها والفراشات المحيطة بها.

أحببت كل شيء في هذا الرواية وبكيت لذهابه. في نقطة ما حين تكبر آن، ستدرك مدى خسارة الطفولة، ومعنى أن تكون كبيرًا بنكهة آن.

من ألطف ألطف ما يمكن للمرء أن يقرأه حقًا:)

مراجعة غير موضوعية بالمرة أعترف، لكن لنفس السبب أقول أنها تستحق.
الكتاب الذي يقع في قلبك ويجعلك تضع أسلحتك جانبًا أجدر بالنجمات الخمس في نظري.

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"مادام الله في ملكوته السماوي فالدنيا بألف خير" همست آن..
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It's hard to believe I had not read this book until now. I thought I had read most of the children's classics (except Laura Ingalls Wilder and Old Yeller), but I guess not. I am so glad that this was nominated as the July read for the Classics for Beginners Group. It lit a fire under me to read this finally. This was a fantastic book.

I have a list of singular heroines and I'm adding Anne to my list. Anne is so lovable. Even with all her flaws, or maybe because of them. She is prone to making mistakes, she talks a lot, she tends to in her head and forgets what she's doing (that sounds familiar to me), and she's a huge dreamer. The last trait is what I believed helped her to survive a very sad childhood. Anne is a young girl who never lost hope and hope keeps a person alive.

Anne has the power to change people's lives, and it's evident in this story. The way she causes Matthew to love her is so effortlessly done. He picks her up at the train station, a shy man who in his own words, doesn't know how to talk to or deal with girls or women, and she has him eating out of the palm of her hand by the time they get home, just by her easy way of talking to him and allowing him to listen. It's beautiful. In fact, that was my favorite thing about this book, Anne's relationship with Matthew.

Marilla is a difficult nut to crack. She doesn't want to keep Anne at first, but Anne works her magic on Marilla and the next thing she knows, she's living with them instead of the boy they wanted to help work on the farm. Marilla is very hard on Anne and is sparing with praise, but it's evident as the story progresses how deeply she loves Anne. I was actually very touched at the reveal on how Marilla came to love Anne. I knew that Matthew adored Anne from the beginning, but Marilla tempers her reaction to Anne in every way, out of her sense of duty. The show of love that occurs between a found family always gets me.

In my opinion, Anne is very easy to love. She is a person of very strong emotion, and nothing really can temper that. While she seems to take the trauma of her past in stride, what's going on daily in her life always impacts her deeply. She loves fiercely and dislikes the same way. She's one of those people who will never mislead a person about where they stand with them. That's refreshing. Even when she's tough on others, such as Gilbert Blythe, her rival. It takes her a long time to forgive him for what happens that he inadvertently causes, but Gilbert still has feelings for her. I liked that her ongoing rivalry with Gilbert is an ongoing motif of Anne's school life through this book. Also her friendship with Diana. Diana and Anne have one of those friendships that ideally every child should have. As life changes, your friendship continues through life.

The island of Prince Edward and Green Gables is another character. Green Gables is a magical place through Anne's eyes. She has such a unique way of viewing the world, although it does get her in trouble sometimes. I loved her exploits, they made me laugh, but also they showed how Anne changes lives just by being herself. The current events of the time play out in the periphery, such as the political status of the country and the way that the roles and opportunities for women are changing.

Life is hard, and LM Montgomery doesn't pretend otherwise, but there are so many "pockets of joy" as my sister phrases it, throughout our lives, and we just need to calibrate ourselves to take those in.

This book entertained me, enchanted and charmed me and made me cry like a baby. If you have read this, although you probably have, I highly recommend reading this book sooner rather than later.

Truly magical. L. M. paints with words and who doesn't want to visit Prince Edward Island after reading this. Anne is one of the great characters of literature in my mind. I should read it again.

When I read Anne of Green Gables I was admitted into the world of orphan Anne Shirley and her life in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I fell in love with her and her adoptive parents, brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Mrs. Rachel Lynde, her meddling neighbor, and Gilbert Blythe, who would become Anne's lifelong love, were also introduced early in this book, the first of eight novels telling the life story of Anne Shirley. I've read every one and it remains one of my favorite series.

5 shining stars.

An orphan girl is taken in by a kind couple. They love her dearly despite their plan of wanting to adopt a boy earlier. The girl is smart, curious and energetic with a head full of ideas and imaginations. She makes friends and charms adults. She does excellent in school and is loved by everyone.

It is a cute happy little story which keeps the reader amused. The characters are likable but story is a little too straight. Nothing surprises or is different about it to keep it memorable.

It makes a good evening read but there is really not much in this story to talk about.

Anne Shirley must be the most charming, irresistible young girl ever created in print. I fell in love with her quirky personality and her enduring positivity. L.M. Montgomery did an outstanding job of giving her readers a character to count on, root for, and adore. From the first few pages, I was chuckling and smiling as I became engrossed and enthralled in the first mistake made yet it was not Anne’s doing. The innocent child who was supposed to be a boy wrapped her sorrow around my heart as she came to realize that Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were sending her back to the orphan asylum. She was so excited on the ride from the train station to Green Gables with Matthew as her imagination began to take on such fervor and intensity with every tree, brook and flower she saw. To be the place she was to call home was such a dream to this deserving child.

Anne swept into Green Gables with her red hair and freckles, her big words and even bigger imagination and heart to be just the thing this town didn’t know they were missing. She brought her originality and her dreams as well as a genuine love for life and gratitude to Matthew and Marilla. Matthew loved her from the day he collected her from the train despite the fact that all female creatures frightened him in some way. The relationship he and Anne curated was so special and loving that everything he did for her and the pride he felt for this whirlwind just brought all the smiles. He was her very first kindred spirit at Green Gables.

Marilla took a bit longer to warm up to Anne’s impulsivity and talkativeness although Anne tried so hard to mind and do as Marilla taught her. Sometimes she just couldn’t let her imagination be tamped and let the pie burn in the oven or forgot to get the tea at the proper time. Marilla’s transformation caused such joy in me because it was a testament to the power of love. Anne could not be unloved and everyone (almost, Josie Pye, for instance) fell in love with her.

Some of my favorite quotes:

”It’s such a relief to talk when one wants to, and not be told that children should be seen and not heard. I’ve had that said to me a million times if I have once. And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”

…and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished. If you’ll only call me Anne spelled with an e I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.”

Anne felt that life was really not worth living without puffed sleeves.

She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves. (poor Gilbert)

”Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

“I’ll warrant you’ll make plenty in it,” said Marilla. “I never saw your beat for making mistakes, Anne.”

“Yes, and well I know it,” admitted Anne mournfully. “But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice.”

I HAVE TOO MANY FEELINGS AND THEREFORE ZERO WORDS. This book is too precious and heartrending and touching and happy and sad and I literally just wANT TO HUG IT FOR ALL ETERNITY!!! How did I never read it until now?? How have I continued to live and bREATHE AIR without this book in my life?!?!

10000/10 RECOMMEND THIS BOOK IT IS PERFECTION goodbye

Po latach jest tak samo cudowna jak wtedy, gdy byłam rówieśniczką małej Ani... trochę dojrzałam, ale nie wpłynęło to szczególnie na odbiór tej książki - może tylko tyle, że Maryla już mnie nie przeraża, a drobne gesty Mateusza jeszcze mocniej rozczulają!
Ania natomiast pozostała tą samą, uroczą Anią, z głową pełną pomyślow i niewiarygodnym talentem do pakowania się w kłopoty.

I had never written a review because I have read this Canadian classic probably about a thousand times! It's probably also the reason that I eventually went and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island. Montgomery's Anne Shirley made me a reader. My mom started reading this series to me when I was 6. We started with Green Gables and worked our way through all the books in the series. To this day, I always know what part my mom is reading because she always cries at certain parts ( for example, when Marilla realizes how much she has come to love Anne). My mom and I read those books so much that it was a magical Christmas when she presented me with my own bookset.

The tale of the Nova Scotian orphan that went to live in the fictional village of Avonlea, PEI and had an imagination that was limitless will forever be etched on my heart.

Some of you might remember the "Maria" song from The Sound of Music. It is a lovely song describing a girl who is full of contradictions. Just see these particular lines from the lyrics:

"She is gentle! She is wild! She's a riddle! She's a child!
She's a headache! She's an angel! She's a girl!"

This is perfect not just for the orphan Maria but also for the lovely little orphan we meet in Anne of Green Gables.

Anne starts off as a typically atypical child. She's an orphan and has faced hardships like not many of her age have. And yet, she hasn't let go of her childhood innocence, exuberance and curiosity. Fate contrives to put her under the care of Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert (who are siblings, not spouses) in Green Gables. Marilla, who initially does not want a girl orphan for very practical reasons, slowly finds herself won over by the natural charm & idiosyncrasies of the talkative little redhead in her home.

The story finds Anne changing from a sloppy and dreamy girl to a responsible & caring young woman. Her precocious intelligence helps her to perform exceedingly well in school, but more than that, her vivid imagination helps her make the best of even those things that most of us wouldn't even look at twice such as trees and streams and roads!

The value of family, friends, teachers and even of love, care and a listening ear shines throughout the book. You actually see how Anne blossoms under the guidance and affection of Marilla and Matthew, in spite of their different parenting styles.

This is supposed to be a children's classic but I think it would be better for older children of Anne's age, who are able to comprehend that not everything Anne does is to be imitated. (Sorry, but that's the mom in me speaking! She does do some pretty silly things!) Of course, the book is also perfect for adult readers who are still childlike in their preferences!

Ann of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery is a Novel that I had never read as a child and so I decided I would read it as an adult.

What a wonderful funny and imaginative book and I wish I had read this as a nine or ten your old girl, I would defiantly have wanted Anne as My Very Best Friend. She could actually be my “ kindred Spirit”.

The most wonderful thing about reading is that no matter what age you can go back and read books that as a child you missed out on and relive your childhood all over again.

I loved the characters of this book, I loved the flowery language and the wonderfully descriptive passages. This is a total escapism book I think it teaches Children wonderful basic life lessons.

A back to basics book for children that will fuel their imaginations.

Anne of Green Gables is one of my favorite books