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Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set, Vol. 2 (Anne of Ingleside, Annes House of Dreams, Anne of Windy Poplars)
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on: 03-Jul 2010
The "Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set Volume Two" contains novels four, five, and six of the popular series about a redhaired, imaginative orphan. Author L.M. Montgomery set these three novels in Prince Edward Island, Canada, her home for much of her life.
In "Anne of Windy Populars", Anne, fresh from college, is newly engaged to lifelong friend and admirer Gilbert Blythe. Gilbert is off to three years of medical school. In the interim, Anne will take up duties as principal and teacher at a school in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Anne will make new friends, navigate some small town rivalries, and perhaps change a few lives.
In "Anne's House of Dreams", she and Gllbert are finally wed, and set up housekeeping in the small village of Glen Saint Mary. There, she and Gilbert will get to know interesting new friends and neighbors, and experience the joys and sorrows of marriage and young parenthood.
In "Anne of Ingleside", an older Anne and Gilbert are raising their five children in their new home, "Ingleside." Much of this book is about the children, but Anne and Gilbert will work through the challenges of a mature marriage and a mid-life crisis.
"Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set Volume Two" is very highly recommended to parents looking for worthy reading material for their children, and to fans of Anne of any age. L.M. Montgomery's honest prose superbly captures her time, place, and characters, especially the irresistable Anne, in an enchanting Prince Edward Island setting.
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on: 26-Feb 2010
This was a great deal for these books and we received them very quickly in perfect condition.
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on: 11-Jun 2009
If you haven't read Anne of Green Gables before, you're in for a treat!
I first read this book when I borrowed it from the library. I enjoyed it beyond belief, and I knew that I just had to purchase the whole series from Amazon. I got them on May 21st, 2007, and I was glued to them till I finished the entire series. I have been an avid Anne fan ever since!
In this book, the first in the series, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert of Green Gables in Avonlea send for a boy around 11 or 12 years old to help around the farm since Matthew is getting up in years. But, when Matthew arrives at Bright River station, he finds that a queer mistake occurred -- instead of a boy, there is a girl. This is the timeless heroine -- beloved and endearing Anne Shirley (spelled with an E). She is an orphan with red hair and freckles, and "hasn't a pick on her bones". But, she has a huge imagination, a heart of love, and she dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables.
Marilla, however, is opposed to keeping her, but eventually gives in to Matthew's pleading. Anne makes a lifelong friend, Diana Barry, a girl with black hair and rosy cheeks, and she and Anne both become "kindred spirits" and bosom friends. They swear this oath in the Barry garden: "I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend, Diana Barry, as long as the sun and moon shall endure." (page 87)
Anne then goes to Avonlea school where her temper gets the better of her. Handsome Gilbert Blythe, while trying to make Anne look at him, grabs her braid and whispers "Carrots!" Anne grabs her slate and cracks it over Gilbert's head. Anne never wants to associate with him again.
Well, Anne is always getting into scrapes -- dyeing her hair a disastrous green, nearly drowning while playing the Lilly Maid, forgetting to put flour in a cake, imagining so much she forgets to tell Marilla a mouse fell into the pudding sauce, falling off the Barry's kitchen roof while walking the ridgepole, and then setting Diana drunk on currant wine which Anne believed to be Raspberry Cordial!!
Nearing the end of the book, Anne, at 16, goes to Queen's Academy to become a teacher. She wins the Avery Scholarship, however, and then she decides to go on to Redmond College. Anne's plans however are disrupted when Matthew dies suddenly, and Anne is forced with the decision of either staying with Marilla to save Marilla's eyesight, or going to college.
In the back of this book is a map of Prince Edward Island and a biography by Caroline Parry. My book has held up very well despite all the readings it has gone through. It is taped and glued, and the pages are yellowed and worn, but I wouldn't trade my copy with a brand new one! It definitely looks very well loved!
Lucy Maud Montgomery is my favorite author! She has the ability to make books come alive like no one else. The characters are superb, and the scenery couldn't be better depicted! The story is truly unforgettable. Really, the Anne of Green Gables series are my favorites, and I beg you to purchase them all -- not only Anne of Green Gables, but the whole series. I assure you that if you do, you will not once regret it. I hope that my review has been helpful to you, and that it has given you an idea about what this book is truly about.
-P. Charles
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on: 28-Dec 2008
It is the most heart warming tale of an orphan girl who come to live with a single woman and her brother. She has to earn the woman's love but her brother loved Anne from the start. The girl with red hair and a personality to go with gets in all kind of mischievousness with her friend. When she grows up she wants everything to stay the same and learn the hard way that that is impossible. This is a truly awesome book and you should let all your daughters read it. A must have in your library...
Anna del C.
Author of "The Silent Warrior Trilogy"
http://www.annadelc.com
The Elf and The Princess: The Silent Warrior Trilogy - Book One
Trouble in the Elf City: The Silent Warrior Trilogy - Book Two
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