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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780140367775 Edition: New edition ISBN: 0140367772 Label: Puffin Classics Manufacturer: Puffin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: August 31, 1995 Publisher: Puffin Classics Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Puffin Classics Related Items:
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 Rating: - More from the delightful & sweet Anne of Green Gables - the 3rd "Anne" book.Anne's story continues in Anne of the Island as Anne and her friends grow up and set out on their individual paths. The book opens as Anne's best friend, Diana Barry, gets married to her sweetheart Fred, and Anne is to move away from the island to go and study for her BA at Redmond College, with school friends Gilbert & Charlie and her old chum from Queen's, Priscilla. Anne is still the same eternally sweet and thoughtful Anne, capable of still making the hilarious Anne-ish mistakes she's become renowned for by book three! Romance blossoms at Redmond too, as Anne meets the "man of her dreams", the poetic and dapper, handsome Roy Gardner. The girls meet a third bosom friend, Phil (or Philippa), and "Anne of the Island" shares in the adventures of all three over their three years at Redmond, not forgetting holiday times for Anne in Avonlea as well. The Anne books are wonderful stories for all ages from 8+. If you haven't read any before, start with number 1 which is Anne of Green Gables. I can't recommend them enough. Rating: - A Book of Revelation as Love Takes Up the Glass of Time"Anne of the Island" is the third of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables novels, and completes what we can see as being a trilogy simply becomes Anne finally realizes what everybody has known from early in the first book, which is that Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe are made for each other. Having spent time as the teacher at the Avonlea Schools in "Anne of Avonlea," the Anne girl leaves Prince Edward Island for four years of college. The theme of this story is Anne dealing with "How horrible it is that people have to grow up," as she confronts how her whole world is changing. Ironically, what makes "Anne of the Island" so romantic is the way it challenges romanticism. Even as a young woman Anne creates a romantic fantasy around the world in which she lives, just like she did at Green Gables where there was the old Snow Queen at the window, the Dryad's Bubble, the Haunted Wood, Lover's Lane and all those "dear spots where memories of the old years bided." Now Anne and Priscilla, her school chum from Redmond, are renting rooms in Patty's Place, and making the home of Miss Patty and Miss Maria into their own. Meanwhile, after a thousand romantic drams and enduring both Diana Barry's wedding and the rejection of Gilbert Blythe's proposal (her second actually), Anne finally meets her Prince Charming, Royal Gardner. He is handsome and rich, in short, everything that Anne ever dreamed that she wanted in a husband. Then comes the fateful moment when Roy proposes and Anne opens her lips to say her faithful yes. But this is but a false dawn in Anne's life and there is a fateful Book of Revelation that Anne has to endure before love takes up the glass of time. There is romanticism and then there is that which is romantic and Montgomery shows the difference. There is a reason that this character and these books are enduring classics of (supposedly) juvenille literature. As usual this book is also filled with interesting and colorful characters, such as young Paul and the Rock People, John Douglas who finally speaks at last, and Anne's friend Phillippa Gordon, who also has her eyes opened to the what true love really means. For those who are familiar with the delightful Kevin Sullivan "Anne of Avonlea" sequel there is also the whole episode of "Averil's Atonement" as well as the entire end game with Gilbert. That is the most important part because at long last the final line of Montgomery's original "Anne of Green Gables" novel rings true for our Anne girl. Rating:  - Go Anne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Anne of the Island is like, an awesomey book! It was my favourite out of all the whole Anne series. It was full of romance, ahem, Gilbert Speaks, comedy and happy fiction. I loved it!!!!!!! It introduces some new characters, like Phil and Roy as such, and plenty more. It's so full of fun and the descriptions are quite elaborate, of course, it's Lucy Maud who wrote the book. Well, I'll tell you, you'll enjoy Anne of the Island if it's the last thing you do. Enjoy, rather. I hope you'll like Anne of the Island as much as I did, and enjoy the other books of Lucy Maud Montgomery, too. Best of wishes, "Go Anne" author Rating: - The Ideal, or Gilbert?Anne of the Island is a superb book, and one of the best installments of Anne's story. This, the third book in the series of eight, sees Anne head off for college with Gilbert, Charlie Sloane and other Avonlea chums, along with certain friends from Queen's Academy. Once there, Anne embarks on four years of study and romance, with Gilbert finally confessing his long-concealed feelings for Anne. But will she finally choose Gilbert, the best friend everyone seems to think she was made for, or will Anne choose Roy Gardener, her tall, dark and handsome poetry-writing ideal man? Rating: - Brilliant (and romantic!)If you fell in love with Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea you just have to read this! It's one of the best of the series and one of the most romantic! You'll just long to be in Anne's place!  Try searching the Internet for "Anne of the Island (Puffin Classics)" or Ebay for "Anne of the Island (Puffin Classics)". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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