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Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery

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Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert expect an orphan boy to help at Green Gables; instead, Anne Shirley arrives with red hair, a quick temper, and an inexhaustible imagination. Her arrival unsettles the household and begins her effort to belong in Avonlea.

38 sections102,606 wordsAbout 7 h 46 min
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About Anne of Green Gables

Anne's elaborate descriptions and dramatic disappointments meet Marilla's practical speech, creating a comedy of incompatible temperaments. School rivalries, friendships, and everyday mistakes gradually acquire lasting emotional weight. The landscapes are especially important because naming and imagining them become Anne's ways of making an unfamiliar place feel like home.

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Spend time with a talkative outsider whose imagination transforms school mishaps, friendship, and the meaning of home.

This reading edition contains 102,606 words in 38 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.

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MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up,…

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  1. CHAPTER I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised13 min
  2. CHAPTER II. Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised23 min
  3. CHAPTER III. Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised10 min
  4. CHAPTER IV. Morning at Green Gables11 min
  5. CHAPTER V. Anne’s History10 min
  6. CHAPTER VI. Marilla Makes Up Her Mind9 min
  7. CHAPTER VII. Anne Says Her Prayers6 min
  8. CHAPTER VIII. Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun14 min
  9. CHAPTER IX. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified11 min
  10. CHAPTER X. Anne’s Apology12 min
  11. CHAPTER XI. Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-school9 min
  12. CHAPTER XII. A Solemn Vow and Promise10 min
  13. CHAPTER XIII. The Delights of Anticipation9 min
  14. CHAPTER XIV. Anne’s Confession14 min
  15. CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot24 min
  16. CHAPTER XVI. Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results19 min
  17. CHAPTER XVII. A New Interest in Life10 min
  18. CHAPTER XVIII. Anne to the Rescue16 min
  19. CHAPTER XIX. A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession19 min
  20. CHAPTER XX. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong11 min
  21. CHAPTER XXI. A New Departure in Flavorings17 min
  22. CHAPTER XXII. Anne Is Invited Out to Tea7 min
  23. CHAPTER XXIII. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor11 min
  24. CHAPTER XXIV. Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert7 min
  25. CHAPTER XXV. Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves16 min
  26. CHAPTER XXVI. The Story Club Is Formed13 min
  27. CHAPTER XXVII. Vanity and Vexation of Spirit12 min
  28. CHAPTER XXVIII. An Unfortunate Lily Maid13 min
  29. CHAPTER XXIX. An Epoch in Anne’s Life15 min
  30. CHAPTER XXX. The Queen’s Class Is Organized20 min
  31. CHAPTER XXXI. Where the Brook and River Meet11 min
  32. CHAPTER XXXII. The Pass List Is Out13 min
  33. CHAPTER XXXIII. The Hotel Concert16 min
  34. CHAPTER XXXIV. A Queen’s Girl12 min
  35. CHAPTER XXXV. The Winter at Queen’s8 min
  36. CHAPTER XXXVI. The Glory and the Dream9 min
  37. CHAPTER XXXVII. The Reaper Whose Name Is Death11 min
  38. CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Bend in the Road14 min

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