Anne of Windy Poplars - L. M. Montgomery [0]
ANNE OF WINDY WILLOWS
LUCY MAUDE MONTGOMERY (1874–1942) was born on Prince Edward Island, off the east coast of Canada. She lived there throughout her childhood with her grandparents (following her mother’s death in 1876). Readers of the Anne of Green Gables series of books will find plenty of scenes drawn from the author’s happy memories of the island and the farmhouse where she was brought up.
Like many a future writer, Lucy Maude Montgomery was not only an avid reader as a child, but also composed numerous short stories and poems. Her first published piece was a poem that appeared in the local paper when she was fifteen years old. Later, after she had finished school and university, she turned her love of books to good effect by becoming a teacher.
She continuted to write, and was once asked to contribute a short story to a magazine. She dusted off an idea for a plot she had jotted down when she was much younger – and turned it into one of the most popular books ever written for children. Anne of Green Gables was first published in 1908.
Lucy herself said about Anne of Green Gables: ‘I thought girls in their teens might like it. But grandparents, school and college boys, old pioneers in the Australian bush, girls in India, missionaries in China, monks in remote monasteries, premiers of Great Britain, and red-headed people all over the world have written to me, telling me how they loved Anne and her successors.’
The ‘successors’ are nine further Anne books, all of which are now published in Puffin Classics. Lucy Maude Montgomery continued to write under her maiden name after marrying a Presbyterian minister, Ewan MacDonald, in 1911. And, despite moving with him to Toronto, she continued to set her stories on ‘the only island there is’, and where her heart always remained.
Some other Puffin Classics to enjoy
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
ANNE OF AVONLEA
ANNE’S HOUSE OF DREAMS
ANNE OF INGLESIDE
CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA
RAINBOW VALLEY
L. M. Montgomery
EIGHT COUSINS
GOOD WIVES
JACK AND JILL
JO’S BOYS
LITTLE MEN
LITTLE WOMEN
ROSE IN BLOOM
Louisa M. Alcott
WHAT KATY DID
WHAT KATY DID AT SCHOOL
WHAT KATY DID NEXT
Susan Coolidge
POLLYANNA
POLLYANNA GROWS UP
Eleanor H. Porter
L. M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Windy Willows
PUFFIN BOOKS
PUFFIN BOOKS
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First published in Great Britain by Harrap Limited 1936
Published in Puffin Books 1983
Reissued in this edition 1994
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Copyright © 1936 by L. M. Montgomery
All rights reserved
Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than than in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser
ISBN: 978-0-14-194419-7
To the Friends of Anne Everywhere
CONTENTS
The First Year
The Second Year
The Third Year
THE FIRST YEAR
1
A letter from Anne Shirley, B.A., Principal of Summerside High School, to Gilbert Blythe, medical student at Redmond College, Kingsport
Windy Willows
Spook’s Lane
S’side
P.E.I.
Monday, Sept. 12
DEAREST,
Isn’t that an address! Did you ever hear anything so delicious? Windy Willows is the name of my new home, and I love it. I also love Spook