Anne of Green Gables
Unabridged Large Print Edition
By
L. M. Montgomery
This large print edition includes the complete, unabridged text of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved tale in a freshly edited edition printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Not a machine-scanned or facsimile copy, the text has been edited and formatted by human editors.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author best known for Anne of Green Gables (1908) and its sequels. Her work was, for the most part, based on her own life and surroundings. Somewhat sentimental but charming nonetheless, her tales of Anne, a high-spirited orphan girl taken in by an older brother and sister who think they are getting a boy who can help on their farm, have delighted readers for generations and inspired several movie and television adaptations.
Montgomery’s mother died before she was two, and she was sent to live with her maternal grandparents on their farm on Prince Edward Island, with her paternal grandparents also living nearby. “Maud” spent an idyllic childhood in the fields and woods surrounding the farming communities of the island. She earned a teacher’s license 1893 but gave up teaching and moved back to her grandparents’ farm after the death of her grandfather, working as a proofreader with an area newspaper while pursuing a writing career. A few poems and short stories were published before she finished Anne of Green Gables in 1904, but it would be four years and numerous rejections later, in 1908, before her first novel found a publisher.
An immediate success, the book launched her long and successful writing career. She married in 1911 and the couple settled in Leaskdale, Ontario where her husband served as parish minister. They had three sons, one of whom died in infancy, and while raising her children Montgomery continued to write further poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. In 1923 Montgomery became the first Canadian woman to join the Royal Society of Arts in Britain. In 1935 she became a member of the Literary and Artistic Institute of France and was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
As the popularity of her “good and jolly stories” declined, so too did the health of both Montgomery and her husband. They moved to Swansea, west of Toronto, where both suffered depression and physical decline. In 1938 she suffered a nervous breakdown while he underwent elctroshock treatments for mental health issues.
She died of congestive heart failure in Toronto on April 24, 1942.
Product details
Publisher: S. M. Holden (December 31, 2016)
Language: English
Paperback: 404 pages
ISBN: 978-1541274068
Reading age: 8+ years, from customers
Item Weight: 1.97 pounds
Dimensions: 7.44 x 0.91 x 9.69 inches
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