Name: Anne of the Island
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Author: Montgomery, Lucy Maud
ISBN: 9781727510546

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

226

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN13

9781727510546

Synopsis "Anne of the Island"

"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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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(1874-1942) Canadian writer. Worked as a teacher in various island schools and as a journalist for regional newspapers. Studied literature at Dalhousie University for two years. In 1908, she published her first novel featuring Anne. This was followed by several titles, covering the adolescence, youth, and maturity of the protagonist and the Emily Starr series. She also published collections of short stories, poetry, and an autobiography in which similarities and differences between the life of the writer and those of her heroines are noted. Today, her work is the subject of research, conferences, and tributes around the world.

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