If I love Little Women, What Katy Did, and Little House on The Prairie, will I love Anne of Green Gables?

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I hope so, because I just ordered them all from Amazon.

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Yes, to second the above, Anne is better than the rest combined. I can't read the Ingalls Wilder books anymore because they're so racist (I don't care if it was normal at the time, Pa's attitude to Indians is not something I want to hear from a positively written character now) and while I love the Katy books they are also a bit racist when she gets to Europe. The Anne books, thankfully, are free of such things (perhaps by luck rather than design!) and are the least chauvanist fiction of the era I've read.

The only problem is in the final book (chronologically) when the WWI stuff was being written before everyone found out how many lies were in the anti-German propaganda.

Oh yes, and Anne is wonderful. Gilbert is dreamy. Marilla is fabulous.

OnlyANinja - that link is HILARIOUS. Thank you

You might also want to try Daddy Longlegs and even more dated A Girl of the Limberlost.

I read both in my teens. Loved Daddy Long Legs, the Limberlost book is rather hard work, but is a fascinating description of wildlife and an ecology that even then was under threat. Heroines both under-appreciated orphans, so far as I remember.

I adored Daddy Longlegs

What about an Old Fashioned Girl?

Poor ruby gillis. I often think of her .

Anne is the best out of all that list. oh and as others have said the 80's tv series was just TOTALLY dreamy ........ahhhhhhh happy days.

Also loved Emily of New Moon.

I seem to remember that Ma was the racist one in the Little House series.

Anne is my favourite, although The Story Girl is enchanting too. The Emily series starts well but the third book is just strange.

Yes, Ma didn't like Indians. I thought Pa was OK with them?

It is a particular genre, morality stories by North American authors. I love them, especially Anne.

If you liked Daddy Long Legs you might love the author. Daddy Long Legs is her most readable book by far.

Morality stories by North Americana for teen/pre-teen girls. a very specific genre!

Not that they were actually Victorians, not living under Victoria's rule, but they are all that sort of time.

Sorry to crash but do you have the links for the free kindle editions please ?

there are 2 more? QUIIIIIIIIIIICK. must get them NOW!

I adore Anne (with an e)

YYY to swoonsome gilbert in the tv series!
DS was nearly gilbert but DH vetoed. Meany

God I loved Gilbert. Those eyes. mmmm mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

i have the video somewhere - will dig it out. or even better get it on DVD and watch it in rotation with P&P.

Yes, and you will also love Jane of Lantern Hill.

A crap teacher recommended it to me in 2nd year juniors. She taught us bugger all but I can forgive her because she made me read LM Montgomery!

Yes, the first book or two at least. Some of the books I'm not so keen on, including an odd, supposedly comical, scene where Anne tries to kill a cat and give up, it becoming a pet. I like very little of the books after she is married.

Mrs Bovary that is Anne of the Island, when she is at Redmond and the Rusty cat follows her home but she doesn't feel whether she can keep it bacause of Aunt Jamsie's Sarah cat. I like the ones after she is married the best. My dh is like Gilbert.

Goodness me, look at my spelling and diction in that last post. I hope Josie Pye won't see it, but I'm sure I will wake up in the middle of the night and worry about it.

I rather think my DH is like gilbert too
I was remember gog and magog the other day.
I won a debate at school against the head where we were effusing and defending our favourite books.

I wish my DH was like Gilbert.

at least I wish he looked like Gilbert. He's alright otherwise.

I'e always fancied going to PEI just to see if it's like LM describes.