Anne's House of Dreams
Book - 2014
"Anne is marrying Gilbert Blythe! While she's deliriously happy to finally be with her version of Prince Charming, they'll be making a new home miles away, and she'll have to leave her beloved Avonlea. But Anne is always up for adventure, especially when she has Gilbert by her side"--Inside jacket.
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Publisher:
New York : Aladdin, 2014
Edition:
Aladdin paperback edition
Copyright Date:
©1917
ISBN:
9781442490116
144249011X
9781442490109
1442490101
144249011X
9781442490109
1442490101
Branch Call Number:
JF MONTG-L
Characteristics:
356 pages ; 20 cm
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sarag1
Aug 06, 2016
"'Some might say, that a Redmond B.A, whom editors were beginning to honor, is "wasted" as the wife of a struggling doctor in the rural town of Four Winds.'
'Gilbert!'
If you had married Roy Gardner, now,' continued Gilbert mercilessly, 'YOU might have been 'a leader in social and intellectual circles.'
'Gilbert BLYTHE!'
'You KNOW you were in love with him once, Anne.'
'I was not! I only thought I was. You know, Gilbert. You know I'd rather be your wife in our house of dreams than a queen in a palace.'
Gilbert's answer was in more than words..."
SIGH. Oooooooh I love it.
TYPED FROM MEMORY.
Yup- I know this by heart. Whatever. Don't mention it. So what if I'm slightly obsessed? Or, ya know, a lot obsessed? So what?
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Add a Comment"Anne’s House of Dreams is the fifth book in the Anne series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Beginning from the long-awaited marriage of Anne and Gilbert, this book launches into a dainty and mysterious plot, painted beautifully with new landscapes, with strong, ever-present undertones of the sea, with all its beauty and splendor as well as its harshness, horror, and dark misery.
The novel takes a turn from the happy, peaceful village of Avonlea and the vivid, dizzying world of Summerside. It is set, as aforesaid, on the seascape. Haunting, ethereal, thrilling. Montgomery had a lifelong passion and love for the sea, frequently mentioned in her other novels, journals, and poems. That passion springs to life in this novel, foreshadowing, enriching, becoming a beautiful base for the story with its “voice”.
“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.” - @StarRead of the Hamilton Public Library's Teen Review Board
I like this book because, it is fun to read!
I love this story, with Gilbert and Anne getting settled into their first little home, where they experince the birth and death of their first little daughter, and then the birth of their healthy son. Leslie Moore adds more color. All in all; great!
This is less romantic than I thought. At lest Leslie Moore gets some romance in this one. It's actually not that bad.
There is an obvious aversion to the discussion of certain subjects in this novel. Apparently Lucy Maud Montgomery feels that some things just aren’t talked about.
Things that happen that aren’t talked about, in decreasing order of how much they are talked about (MAJOR SPOILERS):
1. Weddings
2. Death of a child
3. Childbirth
4. Pregnancy
5. Sex