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Anne’s House of Dreams Overview

Part of a series of books which tell the story of Anne, a headstrong young orphan who is sent by mistake to an elderly couple who expect a boy. The author’s other books include “Rainbow Valley”, “Rilla of Ingleside” and “Emily’s Quest”.

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Anne’s House of Dreams is the fifth book in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series. The book begins with Anne and Gilbert’s wedding at Green Gables, and chronicles the first few years of their lives together through happiness and hardship.

Despite the fact that Anne and Gilbert finally seem to get their happy ending in Anne’s House of Dreams, some of the magic of the earlier books is lost in this novel. I can’t really put my finger on any one thing and say, “that’s it – that’s where it went wrong,” but something is definitely missing.

Anne, of course, is still Anne – a young woman with a enviable zest for life, who seems to touch the lives of everyone around her – but one thing has changed: she’s forsaken her creative dreams for a set of different dreams. It was a switch from the Anne I’ve come to know and love, and I didn’t really care for it. Montgomery has also created another fabulously eccentric cast of characters, but they don’t seem as well-drawn as past characters.

Thankfully Montgomery’s writing is still beautiful. She was a master of descriptive and lyrical fiction:
“The garret was a shadowy, suggestive, delightful place, as all garrets should be. Through the open window, by which Anne sat, blew the sweet, scented, sun-warm air of the August afternoon; outside, poplar boughs rustled and tossed in the wind; beyond them were the woods, where Lover’s Lane wound it’s enchanted path, and the old apple orchard, which still bore it’s rosy harvests munificently.” Can’t you just picture it? The one thing that remains wonderful about this series is Montgomery’s wonderful style of writing.

Although it is not my favorite, Anne’s House of Dreams is still worth reading. This novel has lost a little of the “feel” of the earlier books, but still makes a good addition to Anne’s story.

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