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Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery – Free Reading and Listening Edition
By L. M. Montgomery · 1908
Imaginative orphan Anne Shirley transforms Green Gables and the people of Avonlea with her fierce loyalty and irrepressible wonder.
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Published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables follows Anne Shirley, an imaginative orphan whose fierce loyalty and irrepressible sense of wonder gradually transform the quiet household at Green Gables and the broader community of Avonlea. L. M. Montgomery's novel opens on familiar, unhurried ground — a country road, a hollow, a neighbor already watching — and builds a portrait of a girl who refuses to see the world as small. This free edition in the Vocalini Open Library lets you read or listen at your own pace, with no account or checkout needed. It is a public domain text, openly available to everyone.
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“Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow.”
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