Classic Starts®: Anne of Green Gables

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud; Olmstead, Kathleen; Corvino, Lucy; Pober, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9781402711305
• ISBN10: 1402711301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Sterling

Summary

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series:Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete.Classic Startstreats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price. Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale, with its engaging heroine and evocative description of the Prince Edward Island landscape, never fails to delight youngsters. When Matthew Cuthbert goes to the train station to pick up the orphan he and his sister Marilla plan to adopt, he expects to meet a boy who can help on the family farm. Instead it's Anne--a talkative, dreamy, red-haired, freckle-faced 11-year-old little girl who transforms the Cuthberts' life forever and fills it with love and joy.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised	1	(6)
CHAPTER 2 Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised	7	(10)
CHAPTER 3 Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised	17	(7)
CHAPTER 4 Morning at Green Gables	24	(7)
CHAPTER 5 Anne's History	31	(4)
CHAPTER 6 Marilla Makes Up Her Mind	35	(8)
CHAPTER 7 Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified	43	(11)
CHAPTER 8 At Long Last-A Kindred Spirit!	54	(5)
CHAPTER 9 The Delights of Anticipation	59	(3)
CHAPTER 10 Anne's Confession	62	(7)
CHAPTER 11 A Tempest in the School Teapot	69	(8)
CHAPTER 12 A Concert and a Catastrophe	77	(6)
CHAPTER 13 Anne to the Rescue	83	(12)
CHAPTER 14 Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Put On a Concert	95	(7)
CHAPTER 15 Vanity Gets the Best of Anne	102	(7)
CHAPTER 16 An Unfortunate Lily Maid	109	(7)
CHAPTER 17 An Epoch in Anne's Life	116	(3)
CHAPTER 18 The Queen's Class Is Organized	119	(3)
CHAPTER 19 The Pass List Is Out	122	(3)
CHAPTER 20 A Queen's Girl	125	(4)
CHAPTER 21 A Return to Avonlea	129	(5)
CHAPTER 22 The Reaper Whose Name Is Death	134	(3)
CHAPTER 23 Marilla Remembers	137	(2)
CHAPTER 24 The Bend in the Road	139	(7)
Questions, Questions, Questions	146	(4)
Afterword	150	(4)
Title List	154