An elderly brother and sister on Prince Edward Island, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, send to a Nova Scotia orphanage for a quiet boy who can help on their farm. The orphanage sends a girl by mistake — eleven-year-old Anne Shirley, with red hair, freckles, an enormous vocabulary, and an unstoppable imagination. Matthew falls for her on the carriage ride home. Marilla holds out for two chapters and then gives in.
L. M. Montgomery published Anne of Green Gables in 1908, drawing on her own childhood on Prince Edward Island. The book covers Anne's first five years at Green Gables — village school, her best friend Diana, her enemy and eventual ally Gilbert, the failed dye, the broken slate, the apple-blossom carriage rides, and the entrance scholarship to Queen's. It is the most-loved Canadian novel ever written.
Montgomery wrote in clear, image-rich English with a romantic streak Anne would have approved of. Storica's A2 adaptation preserves the famous scenes (the puffed sleeves, the carrots in the slate, the Lady of Shalott boat trip) and brings the novel to A2 across twenty-five chapters.
Montgomery's English flows in clear, scene-by-scene chapters with lots of dialogue — exactly the structure A2 readers benefit from. The book is mostly conversation between Anne and the people who love her or are bewildered by her, and the vocabulary stays inside ordinary nineteenth-century rural life: school, dress, farm, lake, neighbour. No rare vocabulary stops the page.
Elementary. You handle simple past tense, basic dialogue, and short connected paragraphs. Vocabulary is around 1,500 words. You can describe what you read.
Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Anne of Green Gables was originally written in English, but you choose your reading language when you start.
A2. Elementary. You handle simple past tense, basic dialogue, and short connected paragraphs. Vocabulary is around 1,500 words. You can describe what you read.
About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.
No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.
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Anne of Green Gables is rated A2, so we'd suggest starting with one of our A0 or A1 books first if you're brand-new to your target language. Check our shelf at /library/ — the readers there are short, gentle, and built specifically for week one.
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