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    Anne of Avonlea
    Anne of Avonlea
    Anne of Avonlea
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    Anne of Avonlea

    Written by Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Narrated by Barbara Caruso

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    In Anne of Green Gables, delightful, unpredictable Anne Shirley captured the hearts of girls around the world. Now this charming heroine returns in the further adventures of Anne of Avonlea.

    Avonlea is the prettiest little town on Prince Edward Island, which is the prettiest island in all of Canada. Years ago, Anne came here as an orphan—a mischievous, talkative redhead with a shabby suitcase and a heart full of dreams.

    Now, however, Anne is a young woman with new dreams. She has a job as the town’s schoolteacher, and as the school year passes, wonderful adventures await: reuniting two long-lost lovers, raising two orphans who tumble into her life, and
    discovering the first flickering of love for a dear old friend.

    Today L.M. Montgomery’s tales of Anne Shirley are beloved classics, with generations of fans everywhere.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 19, 2014
    ISBN9781440799617
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    Lucy Maud Montgomery

    Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874 and raised by her maternal grandparents following her mother's death when she was just two years old. Biographical accounts of her upbringing suggest a strict and rather lonely childhood. She later spent a number of years working as a teacher before turning to journalism and then, ultimately to fiction writing. While Anne of Green Gables was completed in 1905 Montgomery was at first unable to find a publisher for it and - having set it aside for a while - eventually found a champion for it in the Page Company of Boston. Her first novel - and the one which was to prove by far her most successful - was published in 1908 and has remained in print the world over ever since. In creating the uniquely memorable Anne, Montgomery gave the world of classic fiction one of its most enduring heroines.

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    • 5/5
      Barbara Caruso is the perfect narrator for this story, she and Anne must be kindred spirits!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I devoured this sequel, every bit as heartwarming and funny as Anne of Green Gables, but with even more relatable revelations, and some new characters to love. It made me smile ear to ear all the way through.
      Narration first class once again.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Another excellent installment in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne Shirley continues to enjoy life with her vivid imagination. Here, we find her teaching at Avonlea School and helping the area by forming an improvement society. She meets and befriends more members of the community and continues to enrich the lives of all those with whom she comes into contact.Favorite secondary characters: Davy Keith, Paul Irving, Miss Lavender Lewis, and Mrs. Rachel Lynde. Of course, I always have a spot in my heart for Anne and Marilla.Just pure joy.
    • 5/5
      The narrator is fantastic - she does everyone's voices so well!
    • 5/5
      Anne of Green Gables is such a good book I really like it the narrator is awesome she does the voices super well!
    • 5/5
      Just a pure delight. I loved the Anne books as a teenager, and now as a 50-year-old re-visiting them, I find they contain so much wisdom and that joyous positivity that never grows old!
    • 5/5
      I LOVED this book! I have enjoyed this series so far and will continue to read the rest of the books. Great book and would highly recommend it!
    • 5/5
      Great book, it makes you see and appreciate a long needed movie.
    • 5/5
      LOVED this book and narrator! Ann is a grest heroine!
    • 5/5
      This book was SO GOOD! I read this with my daughter. The narrator is really good, she also did a bunch of Louisa . M . Alcott which is my daughter’s favorite author! Thank you so much Scribd! ?
    • 3/5
      Picking up where the last book left off, Anne is still living at Green Gables with Marilla and beginning her career as a schoolteacher at the Avonlea school. As such, we meet new characters in the younger children who make up her classroom and some of their parents as well. Other characters are introduced for the first time in this story, including a new neighbor who is a bit of a curmudgeon and has a vulgar parrot for a pet as well as a lonely "old maid" who loves to pretend. And, of course, old favorites return, such as Anne's bosom friend Diana and her sometime rival Gilbert. Also, Marilla ends up taking in the twin children of a distant relative who passed away. These youngsters, Davy and Dora, are the worst part of this book in my opinion. As everyone in Avonlea loves to point out, Dora is a meek, submissive child with rarely a thought of her own, let alone a personality, and thus is extremely boring. On the other hand, Davey is full of ridiculous thoughts (including very dismissive views of women) and can't keep out of trouble. For some reason, everyone loves him because he is a rapscallion. I, however, do not. I feel like the author tried to make him a substitute for what Anne's character was in the first book, but he seems to revel in being bad on purpose, rather than young Anne's daydreaming and careless ways causing some unforeseen trouble that ends up being humorous rather than just showcasing a rebellious streak.Speaking of that, although Anne has matured greatly here (ages 16-18 in this book, compared to 11-16 in the previous title), she still occasionally has those moments of making mistakes that lead to hilarious scenarios, such as when she accidentally sells her neighbor's cow instead of own or when she, Marilla, and Diana all sugar the peas for a fancy dinner assuming no one else did or when she smears her nose with dye instead of lotion right before an unexpected guest arrives. These moments are delightful, capture the fun of the first book, and are the ones I recall from when I first read this book as a child so they are clearly memorable. While the first book mostly aged well, this one clearly did not. There are many unkind views of women espoused by numerous characters; even if these are sometimes dismissed by other characters, it's never as wholeheartedly as I would like. Among these are the idea that a woman of 45 is fully white haired and past her prime, which is just ridiculous. Further, there's many discussions where most characters are in favor of corporal punishment for schoolchildren, a practice which Anne discourages but ultimately, in an act of anger, engages in herself once to positive benefits. And, non-white, non-Canadian folks are looked down upon in throwaway lines that didn't really need to be there.This audiobook version also suffered from a very poor narrator. Her voice was very shrill for certain characters, such as Anne herself, and very stereotypical "hick" like for many of the male characters. She also sometimes made mistakes, like using her Marilla voice for Anne when she's having a discussion with Diana or using her Davy voice for Charlotta when she's having a discussion with Anne.Nevertheless, despite these problems, there were enough moments of whimsy and passages of beautiful prose that I am going to continue along with my journey of re-reading this whole series.
    • 4/5
      Not nearly as good as the first book, but still a sweet story.
    • 4/5
      I didnt enjoy this as much as Anne of Green Gables, not because it was bad but because I wasnt as familiar with the stories as I am the first book and so there wasnt that strong nostalgia for me. I find reading these books interesting for the characters I love but also because the books themselves are written in such a different time. Is it still considered historical fiction if it was contemporary fiction at the time it was published? In any case it is interesting to me because the choices and views of the characters are made in a different context and thus I end up judging them differently than I would if the book were written today.
    • 3/5
      This sequel to Anne of Green Gables is less fun than I remember. There's a lot of daydreaming about fairies and a naughty ah-shucks-boys-will-be-boys in Davy Keith that is not funny, but rather grotesque in the way he treats his twin sister Dora. And there is way less Gilbert than I remember as a kid. Not acceptable.

      We also need to have a moment for schoolteacher Anne. Good gravy, she is SO EARNEST. Maybe it's because I'll be entering year 9 of teaching this fall, but my goodness, NOT EVERYONE WILL LIKE YOU. It's something you MUST make peace with at the very beginning of your teaching career, or you will spend so much time crying over your students. And you do not have that mental energy to spare. Granted, I have had the rare class where I had the ENTIRE approval of ALL the students in the class, and it's a damn delight to teach them. But they're unicorns you treasure in the average and less-than-average classes where you spend your time fantasizing about tattooing MLA citations on their bodies. Or maybe that's just me. But anyway. Teacher Anne. She's precious and naive, and it's really sweet.

      I do like this book, but I think the childishness of her fancy is somewhat less fitting in this book than the first, when she was an actual child.
    • 3/5
      I didn't enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed the first. It was a little slow moving and I just got a little bored with it. I'm not sure I will continue with the series since I have so many other books I want to read. I'm watching the original movies and plan to also watch the new series on Netflix though!
    • 5/5
      Anne is a "grown-up woman of 16". She is now a teacher. Yet she retains her sense of wonder and her amazing imagination. She enjoys teaching. She meets new "kindred spirits". And works to improve Avoanlea. A lovely, sweet book.
    • 5/5
      At first I was totally aware of how dated this book was in comparison to Anne of Greene Gables, but it didn't take long for the charm of the characters to take over and you are transported back to this world that you love without judgement.
    • 4/5
      Even though I enjoyed “Anne of Avonlea”, I didn't like it as much as the first book in the series. I think it was because Anne was older and no longer creating havoc at every opportunity. This book focused on her first two years of teaching so was far more serious. However, I did like young Davy, one of the twins Marilla had taken in. He brought humour to the book with his cheeky personality and insatiable curiosity. In fact, he reminded me of Anne at the same age.My biggest complaint about “Anne of Avonlea” was the abrupt way each chapter came to an end. I found this annoying as it created a sense of discord. However, overall, still a sweet read.
    • 2/5
      A teenager is a schoolteacher.2/4 (Indifferent).I can see how people like it. It has a particular sort of folksy charm. I'm just not that sort of person that can get invested in things like what color the hall is painted.
    • 5/5
      Anne of Green Gables returns in this classic. Now she’s a school marm at age 17. Her little batch of students charm and try her by twists and turns. Toss in the recently orphaned twins Davy and Dora Keith, and Anne has her hands full indeed! She has many mishaps and whimsical adventures in this tale.This is a charming little book about Anne. While there’s no central plot to the tale (it reads more like a string of interconnected short stories), the characters really make it work. Anne is so well-meaning even if she makes mistakes and causes property damage. She always apologizes and makes amends (whether through doing repairs or paying for replacements). I especially liked Anne’s idea of the Avonlea Village Improvement Society (AVIS) and the Pye family.Anne wants everyone to love her and she strives to find a way to win the trust, love, and approval of all those around her. However, as a school marm she sometimes finds this impossible when the rascals try her sorely. Then there’s Mr. Harrison and his sailor-mouthed parrot Ginger. Davy would probably give her early grey hairs if he doesn’t learn to behave.Marilla, Anne’s adoptive guardian, is still a significant part of the story. I like her steadying hand and well-placed advice. While I did like Book 1 a little more since is was about Anne fitting into this new life, it’s so good to have Marilla be such a backbone presence in this tale.Occasionally the tale dips a toe into the preaching pond with examples of good morals and what not. It was mild but once or twice I did roll my eyes. There is one short discussion about ‘injun’ feathered headdresses which dates this work.Anne grows up a bit in this book. She’s working full time, has her own chores and adult friends. Then she and Marilla take on Davy and Dora. Marilla’s eyesight is failing so Anne has all the sewing to do for the household. Even though she hates sewing, she’s willing to do it to give these kids a good home, even if just temporarily.There’s busted plates, caterpillars down a shirt, frog in a bed, a cow sold accidentally, a horrendous storm, and plenty more in this tale of Anne’s young adulthood. My favorite was the parrot Ginger. He swears a lot (though we never get to hear it swear) but it provides meaningful companionship for Mr. Harrison.I received a free copy of this book.Narration: Colleen Winton was a great pick for Anne. She has that wonder and gentleness that Anne is well known for. She also does a great Marilla, being a little sour but overall well meaning. She has distinct voices for all the characters and her male character voices are quite well done too. Her little kid voices are great as well as though few for the elderly.
    • 3/5
      I was completely prepared to adore this book, but I just didn't. I feel like nothing happened, which is probably why hardly any of this made the cut for the Anne of Avonlea movie. I'm still going to finish the series, and I still love Anne, but this was disappointing. Borrow it?
    • 4/5
      Anne, now sixteen, begins her job as a schoolteacher.
    • 5/5
      Continuing the tale of Anne and the people of Avonlea. At 16, Anne and her girlfriends were done school and certified to be teachers in the communities on the island. Anne continues with her fanciful ways, Marilla has taken in twins - a docile girl and spirited Davy. And Anne meets Miss Lavender, who was once engaged to a pupil's father. He's now widowed, sent his son back to PEI to be cared for by Grandma & finds out that Miss Lavender is still single - so romance happens for that lucky couple. The book ends with Anne and Gilbert preparing to leave for college.
    • 5/5
      This may not be a five star book for everyone, it's just the kind of book that I really like :)
    • 4/5
      Audiobook read by Shelly Frasier

      In book two of the series, Anne Shirley has graduated from school and is now the only teacher in Avonlea. Only sixteen, she is barely older than many of her pupils, but she moves forward as best she can and with the confidence of youth. Many of the characters from the first book reappear, and a few new ones are introduced.

      I am late to the party in regards to this series. I never read them as a child and read Anne of Green Gables only a few years ago. But I immediately fell in love with Anne. Her enthusiasm for life and natural predilection for finding trouble continue to charm and engage readers a century later. There is not much plot, but the characters shine and their relationships are what give the books such universal appeal. The novels are enjoyable for adults and children alike.

      Shelly Frasier does a fine job narrating the audiobook. She imbues Anne with an infectious charm and is particularly delightful when voicing young Davy Keith.
    • 4/5

      I never read this series as a child, and don't know why not! I loved it; I am a kindred spirit to Anne, lol! I will read the entire series this year and see if I can find the tv series as well. What a great classic series! Now I want even more to visit Prince Edward Island in Canada - some day.
    • 5/5
      Read my full review here.

      Reading Anne is like going on an adventure; it’s like stepping into an alternate reality which resembles a fairytale. Montgomery describes nature almost as if it’s magic, and that makes the book seem even more special. Also, there were times when Montgomery would directly address the reader which rather made the book seem even more like a conversation between writer and reader.

      It’s really great when you can see a genuine growth in a character from one book to another. The book itself even acknowledges the scrapes Anne got into in the previous book, and makes light of how silly she behaved sometimes. Small details like these make the book so good. The books seem to be rather episodic in that they cover different stages of Anne’s life. I actually quite like this because we get to see Anne grow up, and go on different journeys with her.

      Also, Gilbert Blythe is a sweetheart. In this book him and Anne are so close. They meet all the time to talk, and the two definitely have a strong friendship (though Gilbert is obviously in love with Anne). I do wish there were more scenes with them interacting because Montgomery knows how to write very sweet scenes with them.

      Overall, Anne of Avonlea is a wonderful book. I’m glad I’ve already got the next book in the series because now I can dive right back in to Anne’s world.
    • 5/5
      Reading this was like visiting an old friend!The warmth and delight of discovering impetuous red-aired Anne as a child in "Anne of Green Gables,"{click for review}now developed charmingly through two years of her teen life,as her adventures are enlarged to include the rural Prince Edward Island community of Avonlea...*" an August afternoon with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars and a dancing slendour of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard was fitter for dreams than dead languages."*Postponing her 17th birthday from the vagaries of March in favour of a spring picnic with her friends, the walk through vales and lanes spanning bridges and brooks describes picturesque settings for their talk that soon takes a 'heavenly' turn ~*"Minnie May asked me the other day if we would wear our best dresses every day in heaven," laughed Diana."And didn't you tell her we would?" asked Anne."Mercy, no! "And didn't you tell her we would?" asked Anne. "Mercy, no! I told her we wouldn't be thinkng of dresses at all there." "oh, I think we will ... a little," said Anne earnestly."There'll be plenty of time in all eternity for it without neglecting more important things. I believe we'll all wear beautiful dresses... or I suppose "There'll be plenty of time in all eternity for it without neglecting more important things. I believe we'll all wear beautiful dresses... or I suppose raiment would be a more suitable way of speaking. I shall want to wear pink for a few centuries at first... it would take me that long to get tired of it, I feel sure. I do love pink so and I can never wear it in this world." *Anne's role as local school teacher providing vivid depictions of student and parent personalities, scrapes of all kinds, and disciplinary reactions, had me rolling with laughter! the unexpected arrival of 6 year old twins into her life when their mother dies, introduces comedic routine on a daily basis.*"If I'm as good as good can be all day tomorrow will you let me be just as bad as I like all the next day?" asked Davy.*Little Davy's propensity for trouble is matched only by Anne's own. Her wit and creativity in responding to their predicaments is unmatched!Beautifully descriptive of rural life of another century Anne books offer great reading satisfaction~ especially in light of having lived in Anne's land of Prince Edward Island and experiencing first hand L.M. Montgomery's accurate depictions of islanders' 'thought' regarding outsiders!* Lovely opportunities for numerous mouthwatering tea and garden parties, proponents of conflicting theologies within the same households, well developed charactersand plentiful humour, kept me enjoyably occupiedto the final moment.*The variety of love stories included would satisfy the most romantically inclined reader amongst us!*"Gilbert wisely said nothing more;but in his silence he read the history of the next four years in the light of Anne's remembered blush..."*Tissues at hand, definitely recommended!*Having the opportunity to review an audiobook version published by Post Hypnotic Press and narrated by Canadian, Colleen Winton,added new enjoyment to the classic story.Hearing the characters come to life in conversation and description is a pleasure. I was part of the story as Anne leads us on her merry adventures. Each character is individually personalized bytone, inflection and expression of Ms Winton's narration.*I appreciate the quality of Post Hypnotic Press audio of Anne's escapades and new directions. Whilst Ms Winton's straightforward portrayals of Rachel Lynde and Marilla Cuthbert are filled with character respective for their ages,my choice for a series focused on Annewould have tended to a more age accurate narrator's voice. Anne's lilting vivacity hasn't been captured, for my ear.* I've included the sampler, kindly provided by the publisher, for your convenience in having a listen. We all hear and relate individually to narrators of our personal story favourites,so I'll leave the response open to you.*A seamless recording of uninterrupted listening entertainment,I thank Post Hypnotic Press for the pleasurable opportunity of hearing and reviewing their audio of Anne of Avonlea .
    • 5/5
      Watching Anne grow up by degrees, I understand it better now than I would have if I'd finished reading this book the first time I started it, a good many years ago. I appreciate the beauty of it now, as well as the way Montgomery, as usual, takes you directly to Avonlea and Prince Edward Island, with all of its seasons and charms. Splendid imagery!
    • 3/5
      Uggh, Davy and Dora suck. Especially Davy.