Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They’re known as the royal family of Summerside - and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty - and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside’s strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her triumphs.

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208 pages
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English
Publication date

April 23, 2020
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5 x 0.52 x 8 inches
ISBN-13

979-8636491910
Lexile measure

810L
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B087L6QPCL
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 23, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8636491910
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 810L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.52 x 8 inches

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Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. She had her first poem published at the age of 15 and after completing college she worked for a short time as a journalist before becoming a teacher.

In 1908 Anne of Green Gables was published to huge acclaim with Anne of Avonlea coming soon after. Many successful novels follwed but by late 1930s, due to personal troubles, illness and depression, she stopped writing.

Lucy Maud Montgomery died in 1942 and was buried on her beloved Prince Edward Island.

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A Good Idea and Interesting Characters But What About Gilbert?

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2022

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So Montgomery must have had the idea to fill in the gaps of Anne's life with this novel which is a lot of letters Annie writes to Gilbert. I'm reading all the Anne of Green Gables books one after the other and this particular book was not in the set I originally purchased. So lesson learned!

This book has some interesting characters and has memorable moments. What I found odd however was that while Annie is writing Gilbert all these love letters (they are pretty tame), Gilbert is not writing a SINGLE letter back. I found this fairly annoying. Could he not have found a few minutes for his beloved Anne? I guess not he is too busy working through summers and going to college.

This is the book before the wedding and has lots of other characters getting married and eloping.

I would only rate this a 4 because I really wanted to know more about Gilbert and that idea was thwarted. But the cat mentioned in the book is cute so I won't lower it by another star!!! >^..^<

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Anne Faces Many Challenges with Delight

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2022

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After the events of the previous Anne book, Anne of the Island, I chose to move right into the next Anne book without delay. I put in my earbuds and slipped into Tara Ward's narration of Anne, new Redmond B.A., newly affianced, and now preparing to take the principalship and teaching job in seaside city of Summerside.

Anne of Windy Poplars is the fourth installment in the series of closely connected books. I enjoyed the author's choice to tell this one both in epistolary format and narration. Anne is writing to Gilbert who is away at medical school and sharing her impressions of Summerside, the household of Windy Poplars, her neighborhood, her work at Summerside High School, and of course, her personal war with the Pringle Clan.

Where the previous book could get somewhat broody or angsty as Anne wrestled with her feelings, Windy Poplars, brings back the free spirit and Anne's endeavor to live in a new place alone as an adult woman all while missing Gilbert, Avonlea and Green Gables, and trying to find a way to be a success at her job with the Pringles thwarting her every effort. She discovers kindred spirits in her widowed landladies, Rebecca Dew, little, lonely Elizabeth next door living with her cold, autocratic grandmother, and a few surprises at her school. Anne takes the snubs of a fellow teacher, Katherine Brook as a challenge just as she does Jen Pringle and the others of the clan. Like my first encounter, I do wish there had been a way to occasionally get Gilbert's reactions to her newsy letters, but that is a minute niggle.

Tara Ward captures the tone of the time period and characters and especially Anne. She is able to voice the characters so they are distinct and I enjoyed her narration work.

All in all, heartwarming, delightful, and a fun listen.

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Attractive new edition of Mature "Anne" Novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2017

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An attractive new edition of the "Anne" books, published by Virago. Whether there is a need for yet another edition is, I suppose, down to demand, & these are good to handle, are as sturdy as a paperback can be, have good size type & in the case of "Windy Willows" & "....of the Island", arrestingly beautiful cover art. Others in the edition have surprisingly poor cover art, & I for one intend to invest in the rival new set from New York publisher Tundra, though they are more expensive & harder to find in Britain. As for the book itself, " Windy Willows" is not one of the best-loved of the "Anne" novels, but for my money it's one of the best. There is a maturity to the writing, dry humour, less purple passages, some wonderful characters & dialogue worthy of the author of "Cranford." Maud Montgomery's fans & critics alike tend to say that, like kittens & small children, Anne Shirley became rather dull almost as soon as she grew up. This is only partly true, but in the later books, once she's dwindled into a wife.... with children....she IS rather uninteresting, as are her priggish, "adults-in-miniature" offspring. For my money, this is the last wholly enjoyable "Anne" book until the wartime-set "Rilla of Ingleside", one of Maud's finest achievements. By the way, " Anne of Windy Willows" was written much later than the other "Anne" books, & the style is rather different. Parts of it take the form of Anne's letters to Gilbert. Some editions use the title "Anne of Windy Poplars", apparently to avoid confusion with "The Wind in the Willows." There are textual differences between the two versions, as the North American publisher considered some passages too morbid!
The British version, "Willows", is the original text as Maud intended it.

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