This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, elderly siblings on a farm at Green Gables, send to the orphan asylum for a boy to help with the chores. What arrives at Bright River station is a skinny, red-haired, relentlessly talking eleven-year-old girl named Anne Shirley, with an e.
They mean to send her back. They cannot bring themselves to do it, and Avonlea is never quite the same afterwards. Anne cracks a slate over Gilbert Blythe's head for calling her carrots, dyes her hair green, gets Diana Barry drunk on what she believed was raspberry cordial, and turns every ordinary lane and pond on Prince Edward Island into something with a better name. Marilla, who does not believe in showing affection, finds herself learning.
Over five years the imaginative, hot-tempered child becomes a young woman, wins the scholarship she has worked for, and then faces a choice that will cost her everything she planned.
First published in 1908 and beloved for over a century, L. M. Montgomery's novel of Prince Edward Island is one of the most cherished coming-of-age stories ever written. This unabridged audiobook edition presents the complete original text.
