Bøger af Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne Shirley agora tem 16 anos. Terminados os estudos de nível médio, desistiu do curso superior para ficar com a mãe adotiva, Marilla, em Green Gables. É a nova professora da escola da vila, assim como vários de seus amigos são professores em outros condados da ilha. Tem conceitos idealistas e românticos sobre ensinar, mas acaba descobrindo quão difícil ¿ e gratificante ¿ o ensino pode ser. Quando Marilla ¿herdä dois parentes, órfãos de 6 anos, Anne ajuda a criá-los. E encontra também outros desafios, desenvolvendo alguns projetos de melhoria da vila, nem todos com resultados positivos... Apesar das responsabilidades e de já ser considerada adulta pela sociedade, a história não deixa de mostrar o lado inocente, alegre e inventivo de Anne Shirley, e seu amor pela vida, sempre cheia de possibilidades. Neste segundo volume, Lucy Maud Montgomery continua a nos cativar com seu humor único, com pitadas de malícia, e com seus personagens bem construídos, cujas ações são sempre permeadas por valores essenciais à convivência e à consciência humanas.

Anne of Green Gables has been one of the worlds most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century.Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more than a hundred years. Published as a childrens novel, the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan, was inspired by the authors childhood adventures on rural Prince Edward Island. It follows Annes journey as she moves to a farm on Prince Edward Island to live with a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them with farming chores. The story follows Anne as she makes a home and comes of age on the island. *The widely popular novel has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into more than twenty languages since its first publication.Anne of Green Gables has been one of the worlds most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century.

Seven years after her wedding with Gilbert, Anne visits her old friend Diana Wright and her daughter in Avonlea, following the funeral of Gilbert''s father. When she returns home to the old Morgan house, now named "Ingleside", she is greeted by her five children: ''Jem'', the eldest, aged seven; Walter Cuthbert, who is about six; twins ''Nan'' and ''Di'', who are five and look nothing alike; and finally Shirley, two years old and a favorite of their housekeeper Susan. In the next couple of years Anne and Gilbert''s youngest child ''Rilla'' is born. The novel includes a series of adventures which spotlight Anne''s children as they engage in the misunderstandings and mishaps of youth.

Anne Shirley has graduated from Redmond College and she is getting ready to marry to Gilbert Blythe. While Gilbert is still in medical school, Anne takes a job as the principal of Summerside High School, where she also teaches. She lives in a large house called Windy Poplars with two elderly widows, Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty, along with their housekeeper, Rebecca Dew, and their cat, Dusty Miller. During her time in Summerside, Anne must learn to manage many of Summerside's inhabitants, including the clannish and resentful Pringle family, her bitter colleague Katherine Brooke, and others of Summerside's more eccentric residents.

The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The book is narrated by Beverley, who together with his brother Felix, has come to live with his Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec King on their farm while their father travels for business. They spend their leisure time with their cousins Dan, Felicity and Cecily King, hired boy Peter Craig, neighbor Sara Ray and another cousin, Sara Stanley.

Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth of nine books in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert''s youngest daughter Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe. It has a more serious tone, as it takes place during World War I and the three Blythe boys-Jem, Walter, and Shirley-along with Rilla''s sweetheart Ken Ford, and playmates Jerry Meredith and Carl Meredith-end up fighting in Europe with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

Rainbow Valley (1919) is the seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. In this book Anne Shirley is married with six children, but the book focuses more on her new neighbor, the new Presbyterian minister John Meredith, as well as the interactions between Anne''s and John Meredith''s children. The work draws heavily on Montgomery''s own life in the Leaskdale Manse, where she wrote a large number of books.

A young man named Eric Marshall goes to teach a school on Prince Edward Island and meets Kilmeny, a mute girl who has perfect hearing. He sees her when he is walking through an old orchard and hears her playing the violin. He visits her a number of times and gradually falls in love with her. When he proposes she rejects him, even though she loves him in return, believing that her disability will only hinder his life if they were married, despite his protests that it wouldn''t matter at all. Meanwhile, Eric''s good friend David who is a renowned throat doctor, comes to the island and visits Eric. He examines Kilmeny, and says that nothing will cure her but an extreme psychological need to speak.

The plot is based around the character Beverley who remembers his childhood days with his brother Felix and friends and cousins Felicity, Cecily, Dan, Sara Stanley (the "Story Girl"), hired-boy Peter and neighbor Sara Ray. The children often played in their family''s orchard and had many adventures, even creating their own newspaper, called Our Magazine. More character development takes place in this novel than in its predecessor and the reader is able to watch the children grow up; in particular, they are able to watch Sara Stanley leave the Golden Road of childhood forever.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L. M. Montgomery and is a sequel to Chronicles of Avonlea. Published in 1920, it includes a number of stories relating to the inhabitants of the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea and its region, located on Prince Edward Island. Sometimes marketed as a book in the Anne Shirley series, Anne plays only a minor role in the book: out of the 15 stories in the collection, she narrates and stars in only one ("The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily"), and is briefly mentioned in passing in two others ("Aunt Cynthia''s Persian Cat" and "The Return of Hester"). Three other characters from the Anne books are seen in brief secondary roles: Diana Barry and Marilla Cuthbert in "The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily", and Rachel Lynde in "Sara''s Way". As well, Matthew Cuthbert is mentioned in passing in "The Conscience Case of David Bell".

Anne''s House of Dreams is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1917. The novel is book five from a series of books written primarily for girls and young women, about a young girl named Anne Shirley. The books follow the course of Anne''s life. It is set principally on Canada''s Prince Edward Island, Montgomery''s birthplace and home for much of her life. The series has been called classic children''s literature, and has been reprinted many times since its original publication. The book chronicles Anne''s early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together.

Anne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green Gables. In the continuing story of Anne Shirley, Anne attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA.