{"product_id":"the-annotated-anne-of-green-gables-9780195104288","title":"The Annotated Anne of Green Gables","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its publication in 1908  Anne of Green Gables has been a continuous international best-seller  enjoying successful television adaptations on PBS and The Disney Channel  and captivating children and adults alike with the irresistible charms of its remarkable heroine  Anne Shirley. This wildly imaginative  red-headed chatterbox tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations  but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds. Indeed  when Maud Montgomery decided to reject the sermonizing formulas of the childrens books of her day  she brought to life a character much closer to Jane Eyre  David Copperfield  and Tom Sawyer--also orphans  like Anne--than to the self-sacrificing  conformist heroines then in demand. In doing so  Montgomery subtly questioned the values of her society--the stifling restraints of its religion and most especially its treatment of women--while giving readers all the pleasures of her considerable story-telling gifts. Now  in this first fully annotated edition of Anne of Green Gables  readers will appreciate more clearly than ever before the scope and depth of this extraordinary novel. Editors Margaret Anne Doody  Mary Doody Jones  and Wendy Barry provide a richly illustrated  completely revised text  along with hundreds of notes describing the real-life characters and settings Anne encounters  the autobiographical connections between Anne and Maud Montgomery  and the books astonishing range of literary  biblical  and mythological references. Additional essays offer fascinating background information on such topics as the geography and settlement of Prince Edward Island (where Anne takes place); the education  orphanages  music  and literature of Annes time; and the horticulture  homemade artifacts  and food preparation that are so prevalent in the story. Margaret Anne Doody supplies a comprehensive introduction  which situates the novel in its literary and social contexts  explores those aspects of Montgomerys life most relevant to the story  examines revisions in the manuscripts  and provides an overall sense of both the impulses that drove Montgomery to write Anne of Green Gables and the larger concerns it dramatizes so compellingly. This edition also contains a chronology of Montgomerys life  an extensive bibliography  songs and poems that appear in the text  and a selection of original reviews of the book. This wealth of material enables readers to grasp the marvelous multi-layeredness of the novel and to understand more fully its place in both its own time and in ours. Elegantly and beautifully designed  with generous illustrations from previous editions  photographs of the places the novel inhabits  and explanatory drawings that reproduce the texture of Annes world  The Annotated Anne of Green Gables is a major event in the publishing history of one of the worlds most charming stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279678693429,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195104285","price":36.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195104288.jpg?v=1780606032","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-annotated-anne-of-green-gables-9780195104288","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}