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Anne of the Island

L. M. Montgomery

Anne Shirley leaves Prince Edward Island for the first time to attend Redmond College in Nova Scotia, embarking on new adventures with old and new friends.

"Anne of the Island" by L. M. Montgomery is a novel. Anne Shirley leaves Prince Edward Island for the first time to attend Redmond College in Nova Scotia, embarking on new adventures with old and new friends.

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“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 blue—blue—blue; 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 tranquility 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 gone—how 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.”

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I The Shadow of Change
  2. 02Chapter II Garlands of Autumn
  3. 03Chapter III Greeting and Farewell
  4. 04Chapter IV April’s Lady
  5. 05Chapter V Letters from Home
  6. 06Chapter VI In the Park
  7. 07Chapter VII Home Again
  8. 08Chapter VIII Anne’s First Proposal
  9. 09Chapter IX An Unwelcome Lover and a Welcome Friend
  10. 10Chapter X Patty’s Place
  11. 11Chapter XI The Round of Life
  12. 12Chapter XII “Averil’s Atonement”
  13. 13Chapter XIII The Way of Transgressors
  14. 14Chapter XIV The Summons
  15. 15Chapter XV A Dream Turned Upside Down
  16. 16Chapter XVI Adjusted Relationships
  17. 17Chapter XVII A Letter from Davy
  18. 18Chapter XVIII Miss Josephine Remembers the Anne-girl
  19. 19Chapter XIX An Interlude
  20. 20Chapter XX Gilbert Speaks
  21. 21Chapter XXI Roses of Yesterday
  22. 22Chapter XXII Spring and Anne Return to Green Gables
  23. 23Chapter XXIII Paul Cannot Find the Rock People
  24. 24Chapter XXIV Enter Jonas
  25. 25Chapter XXV Enter Prince Charming
  26. 26Chapter XXVI Enter Christine
  27. 27Chapter XXVII Mutual Confidences
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII A June Evening
  29. 29Chapter XXIX Diana’s Wedding
  30. 30Chapter XXX Mrs. Skinner’s Romance
  31. 31Chapter XXXI Anne to Philippa
  32. 32Chapter XXXII Tea with Mrs. Douglas
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII “He Just Kept Coming and Coming”
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV John Douglas Speaks at Last
  35. 35Chapter XXXV The Last Redmond Year Opens
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI The Gardners’Call
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII Full-fledged B.A.’s
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII False Dawn
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX Deals with Weddings
  40. 40Chapter XL A Book of Revelation
  41. 41Chapter XLI Love Takes Up the Glass of Time

About this edition

Author
L. M. Montgomery
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
237 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers