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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
cransell: The Country of Pointed Firs really reminded me of Anne of Green Gables - although not at all focused of a child or growing up. But if you enjoy one, you'll likely enjoy the other.
{My thoughts} – I remember reading this book back when I was in the 4th grade. We had to read so many books to get so many reading points. Different books gave more points. It was a lot like the AR reading tests our children take in school today.
Anne Shirley Is this sweet little eleven-year-old orphan that was left an an orphanage after both her parents had passed away from different circumstances. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are a brother and sister that are in need of help on their farm. They are getting up in age and are looking to adopt a boy to come and help Matthew with chores and things outside.
They’d sent word of mouth to a trusted acquaintance to have them bring back a boy for them. Somehow, wires got crossed and they brought back a little girl instead. It was quite a shock for everyone and Marilla was set on sending her back to the orphanage until Mattew gave his two cents on the matter.
Anne breezes through school at an exceptionally fast pace and seems to be able to learn really quickly. She however, does have a wild imagination that makes it fun to read what comes of the things her character has to say within the pages of the book. Aside from her fun imagination, she has one really close friend and attends events with her on a regular basis.
This book covers things that are normal for children at her age up through age 16 or so. Back in the day there was such a difference for children, their upbringing, and how things use to be done. Now, the things you read in dated books like this, you can easily see how different stuff is between past and present and it’s fun to learn about and read about those differences.
I really enjoyed reading this book and reliving my childhood in a sense through it. As I was reading it I Was wondering how I knew what a lot of the words in it were though, seeing as I am an adult now and some of the words don’t really make a whole lot of sense to me at this point. I was constantly marking words I didn’t know and looking them up in a dictionary so that I’d know the meanings. It is always fun to learn new words, for sure always fun to learn new things.
I also marked and saved a number of quotes that I enjoyed coming across within the book and look forward to sharing them at some point with my readers.
I look forward to reading more in this series in the future as I have only ever read the first book in this particular series. ( )
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside - and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty - and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside's strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her triumphs.
The good stars met in your horoscope, Made you of spirit and fire and dew. - Browning
Dedication
To the memory of my Father and Mother
First words
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.
Quotations
"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? … Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought."
"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep". But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor – which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
"Oh, but it's good to be alive and to be going home," breathed Anne.
But if the path set before her feet was to be narrow, she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it.
Worrying helps you some - it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying.
"Mrs. Lynde says they've never had a female teacher in Avonlea before and she thinks it is a dangerous innovation. But I think it will be splendid to have a lady teacher, and I really don't see how I'm going to live through the two weeks before school begins, I'm so impatient to see her."
"I wouldn't give a dog I liked to that Blewett woman."
"Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed.
"No."
"Oh!" Anne drew a long breath. "Oh, Miss--Marilla, how much you miss!"
Last words
"'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,'" whispered Anne softly.
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Inspiring, adventurous, and full of life, Anne (with an 'e') is adopted into the home of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Although they had originally wanted a boy, they begin to fall in love with the red-headed spunky girl, despite her shenanigans. This is a story of the life of Anne Shirley; from experiencing life's highs when finding bosom friends, to being in the 'depths of despair' during its trials, Anne learns to love those around her while experiencing all life has to offer.
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Anne Shirley Is this sweet little eleven-year-old orphan that was left an an orphanage after both her parents had passed away from different circumstances. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are a brother and sister that are in need of help on their farm. They are getting up in age and are looking to adopt a boy to come and help Matthew with chores and things outside.
They’d sent word of mouth to a trusted acquaintance to have them bring back a boy for them. Somehow, wires got crossed and they brought back a little girl instead. It was quite a shock for everyone and Marilla was set on sending her back to the orphanage until Mattew gave his two cents on the matter.
Anne breezes through school at an exceptionally fast pace and seems to be able to learn really quickly. She however, does have a wild imagination that makes it fun to read what comes of the things her character has to say within the pages of the book. Aside from her fun imagination, she has one really close friend and attends events with her on a regular basis.
This book covers things that are normal for children at her age up through age 16 or so. Back in the day there was such a difference for children, their upbringing, and how things use to be done. Now, the things you read in dated books like this, you can easily see how different stuff is between past and present and it’s fun to learn about and read about those differences.
I really enjoyed reading this book and reliving my childhood in a sense through it. As I was reading it I Was wondering how I knew what a lot of the words in it were though, seeing as I am an adult now and some of the words don’t really make a whole lot of sense to me at this point. I was constantly marking words I didn’t know and looking them up in a dictionary so that I’d know the meanings. It is always fun to learn new words, for sure always fun to learn new things.
I also marked and saved a number of quotes that I enjoyed coming across within the book and look forward to sharing them at some point with my readers.
I look forward to reading more in this series in the future as I have only ever read the first book in this particular series. (