Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery, 1908
A vibrant, deeply imaginative coming-of-age story woven through the lush landscape of rural Canada.
L. M. Montgomery
1874–1942
Montgomery writes small-town life — kitchens, schoolrooms, red roads, the sea — with sharp attention to how children and young women actually think and feel. Start with Anne of Green Gables if you want the warmth of a stubborn, talkative girl finding a home, or Emily of New Moon if you'd rather begin with a quieter, more private book about a girl who writes things down. Both share a clear-eyed fondness for awkward, observant people and the places that shape them.
Feels like wonder, longing and family.
Start with Anne of Green Gables.
While much of the book is set in Nova Scotia, Montgomery drew inspiration from various parts of the British Isles and romanticized the Canadian landscape.
What does the limitless geography of a child's mind look like?
Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood. She had been reading, but her book had slipped to the floor, and now she was dreaming, with a smile on her parted lips. Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life. Books by L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery, 1909
Anne Shirley is seventeen, with a school to teach, twins to raise and a village to improve — and no intention of letting growing up make her sensible.
Emily of New Moon
L. M. Montgomery, 1923
An orphan with a stub of pencil and an unshakeable inner life is sent to live with stern relatives on Prince Edward Island, and starts writing them all down.
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