Anne of AvonleaPurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil. But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages. The Virgil soon slipped unheeded to the ground, and Anne, her chin propped on her clasped hands, and her eyes on the splendid mass of fluffy clouds that were heaping up just over Mr. J. A. Harrison's house like a great white mountain, was far away in a delicious world where a certain school-teacher was doing a wonderful work, shaping the destinies of future statesmen, and inspiring youthful minds and hearts with high and lofty ambitions. |
Contents
An Irate Neighbor | 11 |
Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure | 24 |
Mr Harrison at Home | 32 |
Different Opinions | 42 |
A Fullfledged Schoolmaam | 49 |
All Sorts and Conditions of Menand women | 58 |
The Pointing of Duty | 71 |
Marilla Adopts Twins | 79 |
A Chapter of Accidents | 183 |
An Adventure on the Tory Road | 197 |
Just a Happy Day | 209 |
The Way It Often Happens | 223 |
Sweet Miss Lavendar | 233 |
Odds and Ends | 249 |
Miss Lavendars Romance | 255 |
A Prophet in His Own Country | 264 |
A Question of Color | 91 |
Davy in Search of a Sensation | 100 |
Facts and Fancies | 114 |
A Jonah Day | 126 |
A Golden Picnic | 136 |
A Danger Averted | 149 |
The Beginning of Vacation | 164 |
The Substance of Things Hoped For | 174 |
An Avonlea Scandal | 275 |
Around the Bend | 290 |
An Afternoon at the Stone House | 304 |
The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace | 319 |
Poetry and Prose | 333 |
A Wedding at the Stone House | 342 |
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