Anne of Avonlea

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  "In the twilight Anne sauntered down to the Dryad's Bubble and saw Gilbert Blythe coming down through the dusky Haunted Wood. She had a sudden realization that Gilbert was a schoolboy no longer. And how manly he looked—the tall, frank-faced fellow, with the clear, straightforward eyes and the broad ... (continue)

  "In the twilight Anne sauntered down to the Dryad's Bubble and saw Gilbert Blythe coming down through the dusky Haunted Wood. She had a sudden realization that Gilbert was a schoolboy no longer. And how manly he looked—the tall, frank-faced fellow, with the clear, straightforward eyes and the broad shoulders. Anne thought Gilbert was a very handsome lad, even though he didn't look at all like her ideal man. She and Diana had long ago decided what kind of a man they admired and their tastes seemed exactly similar. He must be very tall and distinguished looking, with melancholy, inscrutable eyes, and a melting, sympathetic voice. There was nothing either melancholy or inscrutable in Gilbert's physiognomy, but of course that didn't matter in friendship!

  Gilbert stretched himself out on the ferns beside the Bubble and looked approvingly at Anne. If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne, even to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to vex her soul. Gilbert was as yet little more than a boy; but a boy has his dreams as have others, and in Gilbert's future there was always a girl with big, limpid gray eyes, and a face as fine and delicate as a flower. He had made up his mind, also, that his future must be worthy of its goddess. Even in quiet Avonlea there were temptations to be met and faced. White Sands youth were a rather "fast" set, and Gilbert was popular wherever he went. But he meant to keep himself worthy of Anne's friendship and perhaps some distant day her love; and he watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass in judgment on it. She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them. In Gilbert's eyes Anne's greatest charm was the fact that she never stooped to the petty practices of so many of the Avonlea girls—the small jealousies, the little deceits and rivalries, the palpable bids for favor. Anne held herself apart from all this, not consciously or of design, but simply because anything of the sort was utterly foreign to her transparent, impulsive nature, crystal clear in its motives and aspirations. "

  "Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."

  ...oh, Gilbert Blythe...<3

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  fuzziwuzzi said on Dec 1, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Growing up Anne looses the cheerfulnes and ruthlessness of the childhood for the wisdom of the "mature age" (for there was a time when teen-agers were already adults).
  She's not anymore the talkative kid living in fairyland even though her fantasy is still magic.
  Reading the book is like watching ... (continue)

  Growing up Anne looses the cheerfulnes and ruthlessness of the childhood for the wisdom of the "mature age" (for there was a time when teen-agers were already adults).
  She's not anymore the talkative kid living in fairyland even though her fantasy is still magic.
  Reading the book is like watching some episodes of "The little house in the prarie" and it is fine for a good dose of everyday optimism.

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  Ciski72 said on Sep 16, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Sempre una piacevole lettura le vicende di Anne Shirley, così d'altri tempi e d'altri luoghi..
  "I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry... and I think it's nicer.. to look at it through poetry."

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  Pollapollina said on Jun 13, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I love Anne she is so funny even when shes trying to be serious!

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  Cliphs said on Mar 15, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Book Two in the Anne series follows Anne through her year working as a teacher in the Avonlea school. It's full of laughter and details well the frustrations and rewards of teaching.

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  guaddess said on Aug 18, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1402754280
• ISBN-13: 9781402754289
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
• Pub date: Oct 07, 2008
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español

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