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Read Anne of Green Gables in Englishwith every sentence explained
L. M. Montgomery · 1908
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About the book
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery was first published in 1908. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked beginner and filed under children and young adult. It runs to about 102,000 words.
They wanted a boy. They got Anne — with an "e".
Elderly siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan boy to help on their farm, Green Gables, in the village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. But when Matthew goes to meet the train, he finds a skinny, red-haired, freckled girl who has not stopped talking since she arrived.
Anne Shirley has a wild imagination, a quick temper and a gift for getting into scrapes. She longs for a "bosom friend", hates being teased about her hair, and is determined to prove she is worth keeping.
Warm, funny and full of heart, L. M. Montgomery's 1908 novel has charmed readers around the world for more than a century and inspired many films and series, including Anne with an E.
- Author
- L. M. Montgomery
- First published
- 1908
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children, Young Adult
- Length
- About 102,000 words
How it opens
MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs.
Reading Anne of Green Gables in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of English and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
