Publisher's Synopsis
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
Anne is about to start her first term teaching at Avonlea School, although she will continue her studies at home with Gilbert, who teaches at nearby White Sands School. The book soon introduces Anne's problematic new neighbor, Mr. Harrison, and her foul-mouthed parrot, as well as her twins Davy and Dora. They are the children of Marilla's third cousin and she welcomes them when her mother dies while her uncle is out of the country. Dora is a kind and well-mannered girl, a bit boring in her perfect demeanor. Davy is the exact opposite of Dora, much more than a handful and constantly struggling with a lot of trouble. They are initially intended to stay only for a short time, but the twins' uncle postpones his return to collect the twins and then eventually dies. Both Anne and Marilla are relieved (Marilla internally, of course) to know that the twins will stay with them.
Other characters introduced are some of Anne's new pupils, such as Paul Irving, an American boy who lives with his grandmother in Avonlea while his widowed father works in the United States. Delight Anne with her imagination and her whimsical ways, reminiscent of those of Anne during her childhood. Later in the book, Anne and her friends meet Miss Lavendar Lewis, a sweet but lonely woman in her forties who had been engaged to Paul's father 25 years earlier, but separated from him after a disagreement. At the end of the book, Mr. Irving returns and he and Miss Lavendar get married.
In the chapter titled "An Adventure on the Tory Road", Anne and Diana discuss the namesake "Tory Road", built and designed by the "'Tory government'," provincial "conservatives ..." when they were in power only to show they were doing something. '"A resident also remembers teenage courtship in her father's house" twenty years ago. "Conservative majority disbanded amid the Tenants League's 1867 Earth Question policy and regained provincial government between 1870-91 The Domain elections of 1896 similarly inspired author LM Montgomery to romanticize "conservative" reactions to the liberal "Grit" ascension into Anne's dream house of 1917. Both novels, however, cross multiple temporalities and lines. in a post-confederal memory policy.
Anne discovers the pleasures and difficulties of being a teacher, she takes part in the growth of Davy and Dora and organizes the A.V.I.S. (Avonlea Village Improvement Society) along with Gilbert, Diana, and Fred Wright, although their efforts to improve the city aren't always successful. The Company takes out a subscription to repaint an old town hall, only to ask the painter to supply the wrong color of the paint, turning the hall into a bright blue eyesore. The trials and hardships of the A.V.I.S. it also represented the lackluster results of an imaginary bipartisan effort to weave "liberal" notions of rural "secularization" with "conservative" temporal ideas about urban "modernities".
Towards the end of the book, Mrs. Rachel Lynde's husband dies and Mrs. Lynde moves in with Marilla in Green Gables, allowing Anne to finally go to college. She and Gilbert plan to attend Redmond College in the fall.
This book sees Anne maturing slightly, although she still can't avoid getting into a number of her familiar scratches, including selling Mr. Harrison's cow after mistaking it for his own, accidentally rubbing red dye on her nose before meeting a famous author and getting stuck in the roof of a duck house while peeking out the pantry window.
