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    Anne of Windy Poplars
    Anne of Windy Poplars
    Anne of Windy Poplars
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    Anne of Windy Poplars

    By L. M. Montgomery

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    This charming novel is the fourth book in the Anne of Green Gables series. 22-years-old and away from home, the much-loved Anne Shirley has to find her own way in the world once more as she begins a new job in Windy Poplars.

    Now 22 and beginning a new phase of her life, Anne has finally left the Cuthbert’s farm. Filled with romance and charming moral tales, the story is mostly told through the letters that Anne exchanges with her fiance, Gilbert Blythe. The couple are attempting to maintain their relationship while Gilbert begins medical school and Anne embarks on a new path as the principal of Summerside High School in Windy Poplars.

    Anne lodges in the cozy tower room of an old house, Windy Willows, belonging to Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty. Soon she makes fast friends with the women and their boisterous housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. But despite these new friends, Anne struggles to find her feet in the town. The ‘royal family’ of Summerside, the Pringles, keep a watchful eye on the new principal and make it very clear that she was not their first choice for the job.

    Will Anne be able to win the Pringles over? Can she and Gilbert keep their spark alive?

    Read & Co. Children’s has proudly republished this beautiful edition of Anne of Windy Poplars, now featuring an introductory author biography. This classic novel is not to be missed by lovers of Anne of Green Gables and those who wish to revisit their childhood as Anne commences the next stage of her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 24, 2015
    ISBN9781473373914
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    L. M. Montgomery

    L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author who published 20 novels and hundreds of short stories, poems, and essays. She is best known for the Anne of Green Gables series. Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London) on Prince Edward Island on November 30, 1874. Raised by her maternal grandparents, she grew up in relative isolation and loneliness, developing her creativity with imaginary friends and dreaming of becoming a published writer. Her first book, Anne of Green Gables, was published in 1908 and was an immediate success, establishing Montgomery's career as a writer, which she continued for the remainder of her life.

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    • 3/5
      This has always been my least favourite book in the Anne series. I think it is because much of the book is told through the letters Anne writes to Gilbert, and I soon lost interest in them. I also think Gilbert should have had a stronger voice. More letters from him to Anne would have been beneficial.I also wasn't keen on the new characters introduced in this book. There were too many of them, and I felt most didn't have a significant role to play. Overall, I found "Anne of Windy Willows" a disappointing read, but I am still keen to continue the series. I do like Anne the more she matures.
    • 3/5
      This wasn't my favorite book in the series. I wasn't a huge fan of the letters.
    • 2/5
      This is my least favorite of all the series, I think. It took me 3 tries before I could even finish it for the first time!! :( It is informative from a literary standpoint to watch how Montgomery unfolds the story through letters --from Anne, so they are from her perspective, which is completely new to the series-- through the entire first 2/3 of the book! But it can get a little boring, and I almost always get bogged down.
    • 3/5
      For me this book is the beginning of the end of the series. I loved the first few books, but this book was a little boring and it doesn't get any better.
    • 3/5
      It seems that the books (with the exception of Rilla of Ingleside) weaken as the series goes on, and this one is definitely weaker than its three predecessors. It seems like a collection of short stories, each with a problem to be solved and with Anne solving the problem rather quickly. Also, the sometimes-epistolary style, with Anne becoming the first-person narrator, tends for some reason to distance us from Anne, perhaps because it lacks the wryness of Montgomery's third-person narration. Also, unlike the previous three novels, Anne shows little growth in Windy Poplars, where she displays a great deal of "busy-bodiness" in other people's lives, is aware of it, but does little to improve on this habit.
    • 4/5
      4th in the series, and not always included in anthologies. In this one, most of Anne's writing is in the form of letters to her fiance, Gilbert, as she describes her three years as a teacher/principal in Summerside PEI, and the townfolk.
    • 4/5
      the next saga of Anne's life. She's moved into a home by the name of Windy Poplars on Spook's Lane with two old widows and a helper. She's a principal at the high school while Gilbert is away at medical school and they write letters to each other and pine away. Montgomery introduces us to another set of interesting characters - it's such good fun.
    • 4/5
      While Gilbert attends medical school, Anne spends the three years of their engagement as the principal of the high school in Summerside. As she works against the prejudices of the locally influential family of the Pringles, she finds kindred spirits aplenty and gets into the kinds of scrapes only Anne can manage.Not my favourite entry in the series thus far but I still thoroughly enjoyed these more episodic tales of Anne's adventures. I did love the more epistolary style of this novel as about half of it are excerpts of Anne's letters to Gilbert. I'd complain that there isn't enough Gilbert in this novel but I have a feeling I'll get plenty of him in the next book.
    • 5/5
      I love happy endings. what else can I say?
      This book is the one I go to when I want to curl up and feel cosy as it rains outside.
      Not much of a help to anyone wanting to know the ins & outs / flaws etc
      Im sure there are quite a few as the others have written them in their reviews.

      I love all the anne of green gables books but this one is my favorite.

      Somehow Im a sucker for 'seemingly perfect female protagonists who solve every problem' as long as its set in old fashioned times lol.
      Now if it was more modern I dont know whether I'd love it so..

      Call me biased!

      xx
    • 4/5
      Anne of Windy Poplars is the fourth book in the Anne series, and this one is told in epistolary style as Anne has become the principal of Summerside High School and is writing letters to her finance Gilbert while he is in medical school. This book covers the three years that the two have to wait until Gilbert becomes a doctor and they are able to marry. Windy Poplars is the home that Annie is boarding in. Owned by two widows and run by a salt-of-the-earth housekeeper, Anne arrives like a breath of spring air. Along with these women, Anne makes other friends in and around Summerside and is able in her own winning way to bring happiness and change into many lives. This book comes to an end as Anne returns home to Green Gables knowing in a very short while she will finally become Mrs. Gilbert Blyth.I was a little disappointed with Anne of Windy Poplars as much of the story felt repetitious and Anne seemed a little too perfect. I missed the Anne that often make mistakes and learned life lessons from her errors. I found the author seemed more moralistic and a little preach-y in this volume. I also missed the great descriptive writing about the passing of the seasons that I have enjoyed in the previous three volumes. I note that this book is often the one missing from boxed sets of the Anne of Green Gables series, and I also know that although it is the fourth book in chronological order, it was actually the seventh one to be published.
    • 4/5
      First published in 1936, L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Windy Poplars was originally styled Anne of Windy Willows, a name that Montgomery herself changed, at the request of her American publishers, who felt that it bore too close a resemblance to Kenneth Grahame's classic animal fantasy, The Wind in the Willows. Montgomery's English publishers, oddly enough, had no such worry, and thinking that their readers would be unfamiliar with poplars, retained the original title. So it is that American and Canadian readers know the book as Anne of Windy Poplars, and British, Australian and New Zealand readers as Anne of Windy Willows. I understand that there were also some scenes that were cut by Montgomery, once again at the behest of her American publishers, that were retained in Anne of Windy Willows, and hope to track down a copy of that other version of the story, at some point, and acquaint myself with the differences.However that may be, it is Anne of Windy Poplars that I have just reread (for the umpteenth time), a book that is currently considered the fourth entry in the "Anne" series, although it was written and published seventh. Chronicling the three years between the events of Anne of the Island (1915), which sees Anne attending Redmond College, and Anne's House of Dreams (1917), in which Anne Shirley becomes Anne Blythe, and embarks upon the first years of married life, it is the tale of Anne's days as the Principal of Summerside High School, and her time as a boarder at Windy Poplars, the home of those two endearingly quirky widows, Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty.Alternating between the epistolary form, in which events unfold in Anne's letters to Gilbert (away at medical school), and third person narration, it feels rather episodic, when compared to some of Anne's other books, but is still immensely appealing - full of entertaining characters and incident, as well as a most engaging heroine. I loved Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty's method of dealing with their sometimes recalcitrant (but always goodhearted) maid, Rebecca Dew (reverse psychology with a vengeance!); I loved Anne's battles with, and eventual conquest of the proud Pringle clan (cannibalism - the horror!); and, having a fondness for difficult people, I loved Anne's evolving relationship with the prickly Katherine Brooke. In short, I loved Anne of Windy Poplars (as I always do), and although there were certain elements I found less than thrilling (I could have lived without the entire Hazel Marr episode), my overall pleasure more than compensated. Highly recommended to any reader who has read the first three Anne books, and wants to continue the journey!
    • 4/5
      Like all the other Anne books: nothing momentous happens; no incredible characters appear; Anne is not saintly, nor is she a rapscallion. But there is something comfortable in reading a simple tale of a time very unlike our own.In this book, Anne is appointed "principle" of a school for a three-year contract. At the end of three years, it is to be assumed she will marry her "Gilbert."
    • 4/5
      Not my favourite of the novels -- and honestly, I would have liked a lot more of Gilbert in it. But it's Anne! So all is well.
    • 4/5
      This book was not as tedious as I thought it would be, and I zipped along pretty quickly. All of Anne's "adventures" are starting to run together. How many cranky old ladies has she won over with her charm now? 30? 40? I believe she's going to get married in the next book so we'll see if that changes things up a bit.
    • 2/5
      This is the boring-est of the books, probably because it has so little actual romance and is mostly just letters.:D
    • 5/5
      Unlike some of the other books in the "Anne" series, this one doesn't have a lot of plot line. Anne is spending her years of engagement teaching and serving as principal of a private high school. This book is a combination of letters to Gilbert and various narratives of funny and touching things that happen to Anne during those three years - many of Ms. Montgomery's short stories find themselves woven into the narrative. I especially liked the story of Little Elizabeth - she reminded me a bit of Paul from "Anne of Avonlea" and I would have liked to hear more about Elizabeth. And I loved Rebecca Dew! While there isn't a major plot turn or climax at the end, this book is a lot like life - a series of small adventures and happenings that color the everyday thread of a contented life.
    • 4/5
      Anne of Windy Poplars, the fourth book in the Anne of Green Gables series tells the story of Ann's adventures as a teacher in Summerside during the three years prior to her marriage to Gilbert Blythe. I liked this book better than some of the other installments, but missed hearing about the familiar characters of Prince Edward Island, since this book mostly takes place away from Anne's home. As always, L.M. Montgomery has populated her book with memorable and interesting characters -- and the stories are so realistic they seem true to life. The is just another book in a wonderful series.
    • 5/5
      My memory of Anne of Windy Poplars is.. non-existent. It's been so long since I've read the books and I see the PBS movies (which are wonderful in their own right) once or twice throughout the year, so it's easy to forget that Anne of Avonlea (the movie edition) is a mix-match of several books in the series.In Anne of Windy Poplars the dreaded Pringles make their appearance. And it's oh so much more than the movie shows. They are so dreadful, each and every one of them, but everything else is an absolute delight. Windy Poplars, Rebecca Dew, Little Elizabeth and most of all - a character we rarely get to see in the book, Gilbert Blythe.Wait, how can Gilbert be so wonderful? He's hardly in the book! I'll tell you why - because this book shows the reader just how beautiful love letters can be.A good portion of Anne of Windy Poplars is composed of Anne's letters to "her dearest of dears" and they are so tender and sweet and filled with so much news and juicy tidbits and sweetness (with just the right amount of "pages omitted") that it set the romantic in me a-fluttering. Anne is learning how to be in love, something we see all too rarely in girls literature today. She has to be patient, to wait to make a life with the one her heart has chosen, but she does it so sweetly it's impossible not to feel the excitement. Romance doesn't need to be rushed. One doesn't need to spend all of ones time before the wedding crushed up against his or her chosen. Anne learns that absence sweetens the deal and her dreams grow because of it. And, in the process, sets aside a beautiful history to share with her own children.Today we write emails and tweet to one another and love letters such as those in this book are a thing of the past. But they don't have to be - and if you need inspiration, pick up this book.
    • 4/5
      Anne of Windy Poplars was a delight to read. The book is comprised of letters written by Anne and third-person narrative. As with the other Anne books, we meet some wonderful new characters and become reaquainted with old ones. There is a hilarious dinner scene which definately made me laugh out loud in public.
    • 5/5
      Anne spends 3 years as the Principal of Summerside and we learn of all the goings-on in her life through the letters she writes to her fiance, Gilbert.As I've discovered, all things "Anne" really do work out for the best and no situation - regardless of how bad it seems at first, will eventually work out. To that end, I find myself questioning why I continue to read these books. Why do I find them so entertaining? They are so "polyanna" that there is little in the way of true drama because everything does come up roses.The only answer I have is that I have grown quite fond of the character. She is a dreamer, a believer of fantasy and imagination, and someone who always looks to the positives of life. These are all things that are quite dear to me as well. On top of that, I have to admit that we are introduced to a large array of characters each with their own little quirks that makes them "real" and interesting to read.I've often remarked that reading these "Anne" books was like catching up with an old friend. The format of this particular novel is very much like that. A comforting read.
    • 3/5
      I become frustrated by the over-fanciful language and the reliance on episodic "vignettes" that are often too sweet or too pat. But then comes a moment of pure magic - a sudden jewel of a line. And some of the characterisations become more than clever pen portraits, becoming real and believable. It is also a wonderful reminder on the importance of gratitude in life.
    • 5/5
      In Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne and Gilbert are now engaged (finally!) and Anne accepts a principalship at a prestigious girls' school while Gilbert is finishing his medical degree. Summerside High is an old school, in an old, proud town full of Pringles. The Pringle clan runs everything in Kingsport, and when they decide they don't like Anne because she beat out a cousin of theirs for the position, they embark on a campaign of subtle persecution which Anne's sensitive spirit feels keenly. Things come to such a pass that Anne is afraid she will lose her position, for how can she reason with prejudice? With each new novel, Montgomery introduces new and delightful characters to add spice to the story and keep things from getting flat. The widows with whom Anne lodges, Aunt Chatty and Aunt Kate, and their servant Rebecca Dew are fun each in her own way. The buttermilk secret always makes me laugh. And I do love Katherine Brooke. She is decidedly different from Anne's other friends; the only comparable character in the series would probably be Nora Nelson... though there are hints of Leslie Ford as well, come to think of it. One new character I'm not a big fan of is Elizabeth. She just seems too precocious and perfect to me. I think Montgomery wrote Elizabeth as a facet of herself; during her childhood she lived with her strict grandparents and her experiences with them might have been similar. Interestingly, Elizabeth's grandmother and servant do not soften or change by the end of the story. Elizabeth escapes, but the prison itself does not disappear. Another thing I enjoy about this story is its epistolary nature. The only complaint I would make is that it would be nice to see some of Gilbert's letters to Anne. But I suppose they wouldn't be half so interesting or funny! Although this isn't the first book I think of when I try to name my favorites among the series, it has so many brilliant little stories... Anne's day with the onerous invalid Mrs. Gibson, the disastrous dinner with sulky Cyrus Taylor, the affair of the play, Rebecca Dew's flowery but sincere goodbye note, Cousin Ernestine Bugle's dolorously hilarious visit, etc. This book is a joy to read and I'm so thankful that the Anne stories — wholesome, hilarious, wonderful — influenced me so much in my teen years. I think Anne makes me a better person.
    • 5/5
      Montgomery always amazes me by how life like her characters are, her descriptions of them and Anne's opinion of them always makes me feel like I am meeting a new person. Also the characters could stand on their own, without having the main character. In this book we find Anne fighting to be accepted as a school principal/teacher in a small town that is full of Pringles and half Pringles. Through her challenges we meet a whole new cast of characters. My favorite new character that we meet in this book is Katherine Brooke. Montgomery shows through her character of Katherine that you can never tell why people are the way they are without digging deeper and really trying hard to get to know them. Sometimes those with the prickliest skin, tend to have the softest heart and/or have been truly hurt and neglected. I like how through Anne, Montgomery encourages her readers to get out and meet new people, and that you can never really tell about a person until you talk with them.
    • 4/5
      While Gilbert finishes medical school, Anne is invited to be the principal of a high school in Summerside. She faces one seemingly insurmountable problem immediately: the Pringles, a venerable and large family. The Pringles have influence over all that happens in the town, and they are upset because Anne was not their first choice; a cousin of theirs was. But she has allies in the kindly widows who allow her to board, Aunt Chatty and Aunt Kate, along with Rebecca Dew, the housekeeper. What follows is a series of vignettes about Anne's dealings with the school and the people of the town, but a common thread goes throughout: her fate is largely determined by the Pringles, and Anne is just as determined to win them over. Part of "Anne of Windy Poplars" consists of Anne's letters to Gilbert, and the author judiciously omits the more sentimental passages of the letters. This book was written seventh in the series of eight books, so it definitely seems to lose a little continuity, and might rightly be considered a companion piece rather than book five of the series. And it is probably not Ms. Montgomery's best work in the Anne of Green Gables series, though it may fit in better with her other lesser-known collections of short stories. It seems to drag in parts, and I kept wanting to skip through to the "good" sections. However, I faithfully read through it and was glad to be done and on to the next book, "Anne's House of Dreams", that has better "flow".
    • 4/5
      the next saga of Anne's life. She's moved into a home by the name of Windy Poplars on Spook's Lane with two old widows and a helper. She's a principal at the high school while Gilbert is away at medical school and they write letters to each other and pine away. Montgomery introduces us to another set of interesting characters - it's such good fun.
    • 5/5
      When I read this at first as a young teen, I didn't like it. I would skip it when I re-read the series. After I re-read the whole series (without skipping this one) about five years ago, though, I began to wonder exactly why I hadn't liked it. The novel provides interesting pictures into the lives of others as Anne comes into contact with them. The epistolary portions are also pleasant as they really feel as if they were written by Anne herself and as such, I felt more bonded to her than I had before. There are such rich "side-"characters in this that I would rank it among my favorites. It is sweet and poignant, and showcases the epistolary style that I don't think Montgomery used nearly enough.
    • 3/5
      For me this book is the beginning of the end of the series. I loved the first few books, but this book was a little boring and it doesn't get any better.
    • 3/5
      This book really disappointed me in comparison to the earlier Anne books. Montgomery tries a new epistolary style in this book, writing most of the chapters as letters from Anne to Gilbert. There is never any reply, lending the stories a dull, one-sided feel, and the passages are occasionally interrupted by authorial comments like "(two pages omitted here)" where Anne is ostensibly writing her private romantic thoughts to her beloved. The letters just don't work as a narrative device, being especially annoying to the modern reader in their use of quotation marks at the beginning of every paragraph, with additional internal quotation marks for actual dialogue, and Montgomery further disrupts her attempts at a new literary technique by reverting to the omniscient narrator perspective for several chapters. Anne seems to meet someone brand new in almost every chapter, but doesn't form very deep attachments with that many people, and the reader is given little to no hint of her having any meaningful communication with old characters during her visits home. Montgomery misses the opportunity to derive a meaningful narrative thread from the three years during which Anne must work and wait before marrying Gilbert, thus lending the unfortunate impression that Anne is just another grown woman with nothing to do but sit around and wait to be married. It feels as if Montgomery ended her previous novel in what she felt was the most romantic possible fashion, and then didn't know how to deal with the separation she had imposed on her main characters. Perhaps this book was a literary experiment of sorts. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorites in Montgomery's body of work, and in particular in this series. This novel is also published as "Anne of Windy Willows" in the UK. It was one of the last ones of the series written, but the fourth one in the series chronologically. It's easy to tell it was written later in her writing career because the voice and writing quality are much more polished. The plotting is tighter, and it has to be to get Anne through this difficult period. This is the time of life that, in the era this takes place, is very difficult for women. It's after graduation from college, working, but before marriage. Considering most women didn't attend college in Anne's day, and that it was highly controversial for them to do so, I'm not at all surprised that Montgomery left this chapter of Anne's life until later to write. She pulled it off with grace, finesse, and a good dose of humor.
    • 5/5
      Things move on apace in Anne's world and this installment of the series finds her as headmistress of a high school and living in a house called Windy Poplars. This book deals more with Anne's relationship to Gilbert and her impending marriage and is written in epistolary form.A slight departure from the previous books it focuses solely on Anne's experience from a first person point of view.It's not my favourite, but it deserves full marks. And the next novel picks things up again properly.

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    Anne of Windy Poplars - L. M. Montgomery

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