ANNE OF THE ISLAND (Green Gables Series). Lucy Maud Montgomery

       Lucy Maud Montgomery

      ANNE OF THE ISLAND

      (Green Gables Series)

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      2018 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-4558-1

      Table of Contents

       I. The Shadow of Change

       II. Garlands of Autumn

       III. Greeting and Farewell

       IV. April’s Lady

       V. Letters From Home

       VI. In the Park

       VII. Home Again

       VIII. Anne’s First Proposal

       IX. An Unwelcome Lover and a Welcome Friend

       X. Patty’s Place

       XI. The Round of Life

       XII. “Averil’s Atonement”

       XIII. The Way of Transgressors

       XIV. The Summons

       XV. A Dream Turned Upside Down

       XVI. Adjusted Relationships

       XVII. A Letter From Davy

       XVIII. Miss Josephine Remembers the Anne-Girl

       XIX. An Interlude

       XX. Gilbert Speaks

       XXI. Roses of Yesterday

       XXII. Spring and Anne Return to Green Gables

       XXIII. Paul Cannot Find the Rock People

       XXIV. Enter Jonas

       XXV. Enter Prince Charming

       XXVI. Enter Christine

       XXVII. Mutual Confidences

       XXVIII. A June Evening

       XXIX. Diana’s Wedding

       XXX. Mrs. Skinner’s Romance

       XXXI. Anne to Philippa

       XXXII. Tea With Mrs. Douglas

       XXXIII. “He Just Kept Coming and Coming”

       XXXIV. John Douglas Speaks at Last

       XXXV. The Last Redmond Year Opens

       XXXVI. The Gardners’Call

       XXXVII. Full-Fledged B.A.’s

       XXXVIII. False Dawn

       XXXIX. Deals With Weddings

       XL. A Book of Revelation

       XLI. Love Takes Up the Glass of Time

      I. The Shadow of Change

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      “Harvest is ended and summer is gone,” quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistledown drifted by on the wings of a wind that was still summer-sweet with the incense of ferns in the Haunted Wood.

      But everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. The sea was roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and sere, scarfed with golden rod, the brook valley below Green Gables overflowed with asters of ethereal purple, and the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all moods and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquility unbroken by fickle dreams.

      “It has been a nice summer,” said Diana, twisting the new ring on her left hand with a smile. “And Miss Lavendar’s wedding seemed to come as a sort of crown to it. I suppose Mr. and Mrs. Irving are on the Pacific coast now.”

      “It seems to me they have been gone long enough to go around the world,” sighed Anne.

      “I can’t believe it is only a week since they were married.