Anne of the Island(女大学生安妮)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
To all the girls
all over the world
who have "wanted more"
about ANNE
All precious things discovered late To those that seek them issue forth, For Love in sequel works with Fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.
—TENNYSON Chapter 1The Shadow of Change
"Harvest is ended and summer is gone," quoted Anne Shirley,
gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had
been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now
resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of
thistledown drifted by on the wings of a wind that was still
summer-sweet with the incense of ferns in the Haunted Wood.
But everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. The
sea was roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and
sere, scarfed with golden rod, th…