A talkative red-haired orphan is sent by mistake to elderly siblings on Prince Edward Island, and wins over a whole community.
Books mentioned in Anne of Green Gables (4)
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace: “I was reading it at dinner-hour, and I had just got to the chariot-race when school went in.”
The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott: “I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart--'The Battle of Hohenlinden' and 'Edinburgh after Flodden,' and 'Bingen of the Rhine,' and most of the 'Lady of the Lake' and most of 'The Seasons' by James Thompson.”
The Seasons by James Thomson: “I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart--'The Battle of Hohenlinden' and 'Edinburgh after Flodden,' and 'Bingen of the Rhine,' and most of the 'Lady of the Lake' and most of 'The Seasons' by James Thompson.”
Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: “It was Anne’s idea that they dramatize Elaine. They had studied Tennyson’s poem in school the preceding winter”
Books that mention Anne of Green Gables (4)
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “Luckily, soon after discovering Sara, I read Anne of Green Gables (1908) and its vivacious heroine Anne Shirley showed me that imagination could do a lot more.”
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry: “The much-collected classic Anne of Green Gables”
Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse by Faith Sullivan: “A copy of Anne of Green Gables she'd found at Bender's Second Hand was her excuse.”