Anne of Avonlea
Complete textAnne Shirley begins teaching in Avonlea with ambitious ideas about inspiring her pupils. At home and among her neighbors, unexpected responsibilities and comic misunderstandings continually disturb the graceful future she imagines, giving her new opportunities to practice the patience she hopes to teach.
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The village develops through visits, meals, disagreements and small schemes whose consequences exceed their apparent importance. Anne's imagination remains a source of pleasure, but other people's stubborn individuality resists her plans. Watch the balance between lyrical descriptions of place and dialogue that brings lofty intentions back to daily practical demands.
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See how teaching and neighborly life test Anne's ideals through particular children and unexpected misunderstandings.
This reading edition contains 88,460 words in 30 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.
Author: LM Montgomery. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.
Opening excerpt
A tall, slim girl, “half-past sixteen,” with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.
Contents
All sections- I An Irate Neighbor16 min
- II Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure10 min
- III Mr. Harrison at Home11 min
- IV Different Opinions8 min
- V A Full-fledged Schoolma’am11 min
- VI All Sorts and Conditions of Men . . . and women17 min
- VII The Pointing of Duty9 min
- VIII Marilla Adopts Twins15 min
- IX A Question of Color10 min
- X Davy in Search of a Sensation16 min
- XI Facts and Fancies15 min
- XII A Jonah Day11 min
- XIII A Golden Picnic16 min
- XIV A Danger Averted18 min
- XV The Beginning of Vacation13 min
- XVI The Substance of Things Hoped For11 min
- XVII A Chapter of Accidents17 min
- XVIII An Adventure on the Tory Road15 min
- XIX Just a Happy Day18 min
- XX The Way It Often Happens12 min
- XXI Sweet Miss Lavendar20 min
- XXII Odds and Ends8 min
- XXIII Miss Lavendar’s Romance11 min
- XXIV A Prophet in His Own Country14 min
- XXV An Avonlea Scandal20 min
- XXVI Around the Bend18 min
- XXVII An Afternoon at the Stone House19 min
- XXVIII The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace17 min
- XXIX Poetry and Prose11 min
- XXX A Wedding at the Stone House12 min
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