Anne's House of Dreams Dramatic Reading

Anne's House of Dreams is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1917 by McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart.

The novel is from a series of books written primarily for girls and young women, about a young girl named Anne Shirley. The books follow the course of Anne's life. It is set principally on Canada's Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's birthplace and home for much of her life.

By : Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)

01 - In The Garret Of Green Gables



02 - The House Of Dreams



03 - The Land Of Dreams Among



04 - The First Bride Of Green Gables



05 - The Home Coming



06 - Captain Jim



07 - The Schoolmaster's Bride



08 - Miss Cornelia Bryant Comes To Call



09 - An Evening At Four Winds Point



10 - Leslie Moore



11 - The Story Of Leslie Moore



12 - Leslie Comes Over



13 - A Ghostly Evening



14 - November Days



15 - Christmas At Four Winds



16 - New Year's Eve At The Light



17 - A Four Winds Winter



18 - Spring Days



19 - Dawn And Dusk



20 - Lost Margaret



21 - Barriers Swept Away



22 - Miss Cornelia Arranges Matters



23 - Owen Ford Comes



24 - The Life-Book Of Captain Jim



25 - The Writing Of The Book



26 - Owen Ford's Confession



27 - On The Sand Bar



28 - Odds And Ends



29 - Gilbert And Anne Disagree



30 - Leslie Decides



31 - The Truth Makes Free



32 - Miss Cornelia Discusses The Affair



33 - Leslie Returns



34 - The Ship O'dreams Comes To Harbor



35 - Politics At Four Winds



36 - Beauty For Ashes



37 - Miss Cornelia Makes a Startling Announcement



38 - Red Roses



39 - Captain Jim Crosses The Bar



40 - Farewell To The House Of Dreams


The book begins with Anne and Gilbert's wedding, which takes place in the Green Gables orchard. After the wedding, they move to their first home together, which Anne calls their "house of dreams". Gilbert finds them a small house on the seashore at Four Winds Point, an area near the village of Glen St. Mary, where he is to take over his uncle's medical practice.

In Four Winds, Anne and Gilbert meet many interesting people, such as Captain Jim, a former sailor who is now the keeper of the lighthouse, and Miss Cornelia Bryant, an unmarried woman in her 40s who lives alone in an emerald-green house and deems the Blythes part of "the race that knows Joseph". Anne also meets her new neighbor, Leslie Moore, who lost her beloved brother and her father, and then was forced by her mother to marry the mean-spirited and unscrupulous Dick Moore at age 16. She felt free for a year or so after Dick disappeared on a sea voyage, but Captain Jim happened upon him in Cuba and brought him home, amnesiac, brain-damaged and generally helpless, and now dependent on Leslie like a "big baby". Leslie becomes friends with Anne, but is sometimes bitter towards her because she is so happy and free, when Leslie can never have what Anne does.

Anne's former guardian Marilla visits her occasionally and still plays an important role in her life. Marilla is present when Anne gives birth to her first child, Joyce, who dies shortly after birth (as Montgomery's second son did). After the baby's death, Anne and Leslie become closer as Leslie feels that Anne now understands tragedy and pain—as Leslie puts it, her happiness, although still great, is no longer perfect, so there is less of a gulf between them.

Later in the story, Leslie rents a room in her house to a writer named Owen Ford, who is the grandson of the former owners of Anne's House of Dreams, the Selwyns. Owen, who is looking to write the Great Canadian Novel, finds the inspiration he was looking for in Captain Jim's shipboard diary, and transforms it into "The Life-Book of Captain Jim". While Owen is finishing the novel, he and Leslie independently realize they have feelings for each other, but both know they cannot do anything about them. Owen leaves the Island and Leslie is even more miserable being trapped in her marriage to Dick.

Gilbert examines Dick Moore and suspects that if Dick underwent surgery on his skull, he might recover his faculties. Anne and Miss Cornelia are both opposed to the surgery, fearing that Leslie's life will become infinitely harder if Dick returns to himself, but Gilbert feels obligated to let Leslie know there is a chance for Dick. Leslie consents, and Dick undergoes the surgery in Montreal; when he awakens, he reveals that he is actually Dick's cousin George, who accompanied Dick to Cuba and was with him when Dick died of yellow fever twelve years before. George resembles Dick strongly because their fathers were brothers and their mothers were sisters, and both had the same peculiar eye coloring abnormality (heterochromia) by which Captain Jim recognized "Dick" in Cuba years before.

Leslie, abruptly set free by this news, returns home, and considers taking a nursing course to get on with her life. Owen Ford returns to the Island to court Leslie after Miss Cornelia informs him of what has happened, and they become engaged. While this is going on, Anne gives birth to her second child, a healthy son. He is named James Matthew, for Anne's guardian Matthew Cuthbert and for Captain Jim.

At the end of the book, Owen Ford's book is published, and Captain Jim dies with a smile on his face after reading his advance copy. Miss Cornelia, thought to be a confirmed spinster, announces that she has decided to marry Marshall Elliott, who may be a Grit but at least is a Presbyterian; she says she could have had him at any time but refused to marry him until he shaved his beard off, which he had refused to do for twenty years until the Grits came into power. Finally, Anne, Gilbert, Jem and their new housekeeper, Susan Baker, move to the old Morgan house in the Glen, later to be named Ingleside. Anne is greatly saddened to leave the House of Dreams, but knows that the little house is outgrown and Gilbert's work as a doctor requires him to live closer to town.

This book introduces Susan Baker, the elderly spinster who is the Blythes' maid-of-all-work.

Comments

Random Post

  • The Desire of Ages
    09.01.2021 - 0 Comments
    Ellen Gould White was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the…
  • Jim of the Hills, A Story in Rhyme
    07.03.2021 - 0 Comments
    Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy…
  • Mrs. Dymond
    26.01.2021 - 0 Comments
    Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very…
  • Cô gái lấy chồng Hoàng Tử - Truyện cổ tích Việt Nam
    27.10.2023 - 0 Comments
    Ngày xưa ở một làng nọ có một cô con gái đẹp. Thấy mọi người đều trầm trồ về nhan sắc của mình, cô bỗng có…
  • The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
    28.06.2021 - 0 Comments
    This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. As much of her other poetry, this volume also succeeds…
  • Tarzan and the Golden Lion
    10.11.2020 - 0 Comments
    Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves…
  • Eirik the Red's Saga
    31.03.2020 - 0 Comments
    In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as…
  • Abandoned
    24.09.2019 - 0 Comments
    We meet Miss Lucretia Lane as she is dressing for her marriage to Captain Francis Reynolds of the British…
  • The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War
    03.04.2020 - 0 Comments
    The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian…
  • Broquéis
    26.07.2019 - 0 Comments
    Cruz e Sousa foi um poeta brasileiro, considerado um dos precursores do movimento simbolista no Brasil.…
  • Theory of Colours
    14.06.2021 - 0 Comments
    Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between…
  • Theodore Roosevelt, an Autobiography
    12.09.2019 - 0 Comments
    In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed…
  • Ngã tư vua |Chương 35| Harry Potter và Bảo bối Tử thần | Tập 7
    20.10.2023 - 0 Comments
    Nó nằm sấp, lắng nghe sự im lặng. Nó hoàn toàn cô độc. Không ai trông chừng nó. Không ai khác ở đó cả. Nó…
  • Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures
    08.03.2020 - 0 Comments
    Job Caudle, the 'hero' of the book is a Victorian shopkeeper whose wife finds she can only talk to him…
  • The Silver Princess in Oz
    20.03.2021 - 0 Comments
    This book will tell you all that happened when Randy and Kabumpo traveled off to the Castle of the Red Jinn.…
  • Minnie's Sacrifice
    19.04.2020 - 0 Comments
    Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's…