Anne of Green Gables

After watching the first of the CBC's movies based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne books earlier this year, I decided that it was time to re-read the ones I'd read several times before - the first four - and to finally read all the others.

I'm not sure why I had never read the whole series before. Perhaps to a much younger and very single me, the idea of Anne with husband and children didn't appeal. Anne and Gilbert were ready to enter upon their happily ever after at the end of Anne of Windy Poplars, and the younger me wasn't all that interested in the details.

But this time I was more than ready for the domesticity and all the children, the joys and sorrows, large and small, of a maried couple's life. And I enjoyed all the books.

I must say, though, that my favourite of the later books is Rilla of Ingleside. I did not know before starting it that it is the only Canadian novel dealing with the WWI era from a woman's viewpoint written by a female author during that era. Well worth reading.



L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars
L. M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside
L. M. Montgomery, Rainbow Valley
L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
L. M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery, Further Chronicles of Avonlea