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In this Giant Literary Classics the popular Anne of Green Gables series continues as Anne is the first Avonlea girl to go to college, where she discovers a whole new set of opportunities and friends. In the second story, Anne prepares for her wedding and travels to the shores of Four Winds Harbor, where she starts a new life filled with unforeseen dreams and joys.
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Orphans--Fiction, Prince Edward Island--Fiction, Weddings--Fiction.
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1997
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PR9199.3.M6.A67 1997eb
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813
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Orphans--Fiction, Prince Edward Island--Fiction, Weddings--Fiction.
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Anne of the Island and Anne's House of Dreams
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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1997 by Running Press
All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions
Printed in the United States
The text of Anne of the Island is reprinted from a first edition, published in 1915 by the L. C. Page Company in Boston, and made available through the courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia. The text of Anne'sHouse of Dreams is reprinted from a first edition, published in 1917 by Frederick A. Stokes Company in New York. All spellings and punctuation are preserved as they appeared in the original editions, except for obvious typographical errors.
A longer version of the essay "'Kindred Spirits' All: Green Gables Revisited" by Carol Gay was published posthumously in the Children' Literature Association Quarterly, 11 (1986) and was reprinted in Such a Simple Little Tale, edited by Mavis Reimer and published by the Children's Literature Association and the Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey and London, 1992. It is excerpted here with the permission of her husband, Professor Thomas Gay.
"Anne of Green Gables" and "Diana Barry" are trademarks of the Anne of Green Gables Licensing Authority, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher
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Digit on the right indicates the number of this printing
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Number 96-86275
ISBN 0-7624-0113-3
Cover design by Diane Miljat Cover illustration by Larry Winborg Edited by Elaine M. Bucher Set in ITC Berkeley Oldstyle
Published by Courage Books, an imprint of Running Press Book Publishers 125 South Twenty-second Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-4399
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CONTENTS
Anne of the Island
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Anne's House of Dreams
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Essay
By Carol Gay
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ANNE OF THE ISLAND
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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1 The Shadow of Change
"Harvest is ended and summer is gone," quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistledown drifted by on the wings of a wind that was still summer-sweet with the incense of ferns in the Haunted Wood.
But everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. The sea was roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and sere, scarfed with golden rod, the brook valley below Green Gables overflowed with asters of ethereal purple, and the Lake of Shining Waters was blueblueblue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all moods and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
"It has been a nice summer," said Diana, twisting the new ring on her left hand with a smile. "And Miss Lavendar's wedding seemed to come as a sort of crown to it. I suppose Mr. and Mrs. Irving are on the Pacific coast now."
"It seems to me they have been gone long enough to go around the world," sighed Anne. "I can't believe it is only a week since they were married. Everything has changed. Miss Lavendar and Mr. and Mrs. Allan gonehow lonely the manse looks with the shutters all closed! I went past it last night, and it made me feel as if everybody in it had died."
"We'll never get another minister as nice as Mr. Allan," said
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Diana, with gloomy conviction. "I suppose we'll have all kinds of supplies this winter, and half the Sundays no preaching at all. And you and Gilbert goneit will be awfully dull."
"Fred will be here," insinuated Anne slyly.
"When is Mrs. Lynde going to move up?" asked Diana, as if she had not heard Anne's remark.
"Tomorrow. I'm glad she's comingbut it will be another change. Marilla and I cleared everything out of the spare room yesterday. Do you know, I hated to do it? Of course, it was silly but it did seem as if we were committing sacrilege. That old spare room has always seemed like a shrine to me. When I was a child I thought it the most wonderful apartment in the world. You remember what a consuming desire I had to sleep in a spare room bedbut not the Green Gables spare room. Oh, no, never there! It would have been too terribleI couldn't have slept a wink from awe. I never
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