Anne of the Island

All narrators are not created equal.We listened to Anne of Green Gables book 1 narrated by Amy McAdams. Wonderful all around.I forced myself through book 2 with some unknown lady who has a lofty, pious, holierthanthou way of speaking except for the children's voices, who all sound like a lady dwarf who was kicked in the stomach while trying to speak while being choked. I made it through that one only to be more annoyed by book 3. This man reads the book as if by cell phone in large print, pausing at the end of each line as if there's a period, then continuing on as if it were a new sentence. It makes for some interesting new meanings. His pronunciation is awful, as if he's never heard of the words before now. The phrase "old ennui" was pronounced "eeen-you eye" and Avonlea was pronounced "Avon" (like the skin care ladies) "leee-uh".I have it on 1.25x so I don't have to ponder too much on how I loath this narrator.

Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved coming of age novel "Anne of Green Gables" spawned a string of sequels in the form of additional novels and short stories about her heroine, Anne Shirley. The first three novels form their own narrative dramatic arc, as Anne grows up in the village of Avonlea on Canada's Prince Edward Island, and then leaves for college, in far off Nova Scotia. The climax of that narrative arc is the wonderfully readable "Anne of the Island."Anne will make new friends at Redmond College, including the wealthy, charming and contrary "Phil" Gordon. Together with her friends, she will undertake her college studies and experience an exciting new social life of dances, dinners, and football games. Anne has grown into an attractive young woman, a fact that will not escape the young men around her, including handsome Avonlea chum Gilbert Blythe. In fact, the core narrative thread of this novel are a series of marriage proposals to Anne.Anne has very carefully cherished romantic dreams of a knight in shining armor. To her surprise, embarrassment and occasional fury, this is a standard that her would-be suitors can rarely approach. Anne will discover the hard way that perhaps she is not quite as ready for romance as she thinks. Her time at college, and her summers back on Prince Edward Island will be a journey of personal discovery and growth. Author Lucy Maud Montgomery wrings a great deal of drama, comedy and suspense out of Anne's romantic adventures in college, in part by framing Anne's romantic life with that of her friends. The big question, for Anne and for the reader, is which if any of her suitors will Anne accept. The suspense is good to the very last page, and very highly recommended to fans of the Anne of Green Gables series. This edition is provided in a nicely readable text style and includes references to scholarly articles and reviews of the Anne of Green Gables novels.

Anne Shirley was once a little red-haired orphan who came to live at a Prince Edward Island farm called Green Gables. Now she is a young woman, off to university at Redmond College in distant Nova Scotia. Anne will be accompanied by several friends from Avonlea, including school chum Gilbert Blythe. Together with three girlfriends, including a new acquaintance, the wealthy, charming and contrary "Phil" Gordon, Anne will rent a marvelous little cottage on the edge of campus that becomes their perfect home base for studies and an exciting new social life of dances, dinners and football games.Anne is an attractive young woman, and noticed by the young men around her. She will get her first proposal of marriage before she even departs for college, hilariously relayed by one of her girlfriends. Anne has carefully cherished romantic dreams of a knight in shining armor, but to her surprise, embarrassment and occasional fury, this is a standard few of her suitors can meet. And Anne will find that perhaps she herself is not quite as ready for romance as she thinks. Her journey of discovery will take her to a very dark place, before the dawn of new hope...Author Lucy Maud Montgomery wrings a great deal of drama, comedy and suspense out of Anne's romantic adventures in college. Of course, the big question, for Anne and for the reader, is which of her suitors will Anne accept, if any. The suspense is good to the very last page, and very highly recommended to fans of the Anne of Green Gables series.

Anne Shirley was once the little red-haired orphan who came to live at a Prince Edward Island farm called Green Gables. Now she is a young woman, ready for university at Redmond College in far away Nova Scotia. Anne won't be going alone; she will accompanied by several friends from Avonlea, including school chum Gilbert Blythe. Together with three girlfriends, including a new acquaintance, the wealthy, charming and contrary "Phil" Gordon, Anne will rent a marvellous little cottage on the edge of campus that becomes their perfect home base for studies and an exciting new social life of dances, dinners and football games.Anne has become an attractive young woman who attracts the attention of young men. She will get her first proposal of marriage before she even departs for college, hilariously relayed by one of her girlfriends. Anne has carefully cherished romantic dreams of a knight in shining armor, but to her surprise, embarassment and ocassional fury, this is a standard that very few of her would-be suitors can meet. It seems that Anne herself has a bit more maturing to do...Author Lucy Maud Montgomery wrings a great deal of drama, comedy and suspense out of Anne's romantic adventures in college. Of course, the big question, for Anne and for the reader, is which of her suitors will Anne accept, if any. The suspense is good to the very last page, and very highly recommended to fans of the Anne of Green Gables series.

In L.M. Montgomery's third 'Anne' story, we catch up again with Anne Shirley at the age of eighteen as she prepares to leave her Green Gables home and her Aunt Marilla behind her so that she can study at Redmond College in Nova Scotia. When she arrives in Kingsport, she meets up with Priscilla Grant, a friend from Avonlea, but she also makes friends with the beautiful Philippa Gordon, who has left two handsome beaux behind her and who attracts even more young men when she begins the new term at Redmond College. The three young women set up home together in a quaint little cottage called 'Patty's Place' where they intend to study towards their degree, but also where they plan to entertain the young men who flock around them. Anne, who is growing more attractive as each year passes, is still being pursued by the handsome Gilbert Blythe from Avonlea (also studying at Redmond) who has marriage in mind, but when Anne tells him frankly that she could only ever regard him as a friend, Gilbert is forced to accept that she will never become his wife. Instead Anne becomes romantically interested in the very good-looking, wealthy and well-bred Royal Gardner, who finds Anne very attractive and thinks he has found a prospective wife, and Gilbert now appears to be getting rather close to the lovely Christine Stuart - a situation that somehow bothers Anne although she can't quite decide why that should be. Back at Green Gables during the holidays, Anne catches up with her dear friend Diana, to whom she is soon to be a bridesmaid and, of course, her much-loved Aunt Marilla and the twins, the docile Dora and the irrepressible Davy; Anne also takes a journey east to teach summer school - where she receives another, and very unexpected, proposal of marriage, but not one she is in the least inclined to accept...Like the previous two books in this series (‘Anne of Green Gables’ and ‘Anne of Avonlea’), this little children’s novel is one that I read and loved as a child, and although the story didn’t have quite the effect that it had on me all those years ago, I still found much to enjoy when reading it again as an adult. It is true that the story is full of homespun philosophies and tales with a moral to them, which may not appeal to some of today’s readers - however, for me, “Anne of the Island’ made an enjoyable and heart-warmingly nostalgic read.

The Kindle version of the book was severely mangled in its language, so much that I could not read it. This had been a favourite book of my childhood and I could not believe that the author had expressed herself so poorly. It has taken me time to find a hard copy of the original book and so evidence that the Kindle version did not use the author’s original language. I would have thought it was unacceptable to publish such a traducing version, especially without warning.

I'm not kidding- this book and whole series in fact is great, and one of the best classics of all times. Anne Shirley is now giving up her post as teacher at Avonlea school and attending Redmond College, to puruse her real dreams and ambitions. She takes some of her pals with her, close enough is Priscilla Grant, who shares a mangey old boarding house with her, until Anne's old Queen's friend Stella and exciting new girl Phil come and join her. Stella's relation allows them to use a wonderful, elegant house called Patty's Place for rent, and soon, the girls are having the time of their lives! Anne is also proving popular with the boys too. Billie Andrews, Charlie Sloane and Gilbert Blythe all propose, and are all rejected, until Anne meets Roy Gardner - handsome, and her old description of an ideal man. Will he be her husband, or will she marry her old rival and school comrade Gilbert? Amazing and a must-read before you die book.

'Oh; it's such a wonderful story and I've read the other books already called "Anne Of Green Gables" and "Anne Of Avonlea" but the 3rd book made me sob when Ruby Gillis passed away because she was poorly and passed in her sleep 😪... So get your tissues ready!

There's a sweetness and a bit of homeliness and a whole lot of innocence and and and...... and that goes for the whole of the Anne of Green Gables series. But I grew up reading them so have this weird morality thing going on. It seems to be totally out of fashion these days. I just wish the last few generations grew up reading about Anne too!

Am reading through all the Anne books whilst I am too poorly to concentrate on much else and thoroughly enjoying them. They are real feel good stories and total escapism for me. Without giving too much away this one ended with something I've wanted to happen since reading the first. I have laughed, smiled, and even cried my way through them so far. Anne embodies that little bit in us all that doesn't want to grow up and would rather be wondering through woods or basking in the sun than sat behind a desk, and leads us to believe anything can be possible.A must read!

If like me you read all the Anne of Green Gables books as a child, dont be afraid to read them again.If anything I think I have enjoyed reading them more as an adult.Anne of the Island is the 3rd book in the series, Anne is all grown up now and is off to College. She is just as ambitous as ever, and needs to work hard to win prizes in order to stay in College.I thought perhaps that now Anne was an adult, the story would take on a boring tone, however I was so pleased that even though Anne is all grown up, she is still as wistful and charming as the girl at Green Gables.Anne of the Island is also a romance and introduces competition for Gilbert in the form of Roy Gardner. Of course as you expect everything ends happily ever after (as everything does for Anne)but the telling is beautiful.Even though I am sure that L M Montgomery's everyday life was in actual fact nothing like Anne's. It is still wonderful to be able to read these stories and get a glimpse of what life was like for women 100+ years ago. Even if it is a glimpse through rose tinted glasses, its still worth a peep.

My 8 year old daughter purchased this with her birthday money and cant read it. the text is ridiculously small. Avoid this version.

I had read the earlier books as a child and thought I would give this a go and I found it wonderful.I was very keen to make sure that if I was going to read these books I must do it in the order of writing and I did find some difficulty finding out what that order was.This one is where she leaves school and goes off to college.

Writing is too small can hardly read it . Wouldn't recommend it at all

I purchased these to read again as I had enjoyed them when I was young. After reading them again, I still enjoyed them and did not realise how much I had forgotten. The books are well written and if anyone wants something to give a young person who enjoys reading then I would recommend them.

This wonderful book is one of - if not my favourite of all the Anne books in the series and would DEFINITELY recommend it as a brilliant read. I could not put it down!

I read Anne of Greeen Gables a few years back; and it was all ways one of my favourite books. Little did I know it was one of a series. They are written beautifully- but each book sees the death of another well loved character. Oh, by the way, in this one Ruby Gills dies of tuberculosis. How lovely. Considering that they are little kids books, L.M.M does seem to enjoy bumping off her characters.

I have read many romantic novels in my life but this one kept me going right up to the last chapter. I knew what the ending would be right from book 1 but just enjoyed the stories as they unfolded. I know it is not everyone's cup of tea, especialy after some of the books which are being highly rated at present, but this is just delightful and wonderful reading, even for an old granny like me! I wish I could be like Anne Shirley with such a positive, happy personality with her love of children and the wonderful way she deals with them and their peccadilloes.

Love the story but the font is too small to read comfortably. I will buy a different version!