6W L. M. Montgomery. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1935.
Notes
Anne’s House of Dreams, first published in 1917, is the fifth novel in L. M. Montgomery’s beloved Anne of Green Gables series, following Anne Shirley as she begins a new chapter of life as the wife of Gilbert Blythe. Leaving behind the familiar comforts of Avonlea, the newlyweds settle into a charming little house near the seaside village of Four Winds on Prince Edward Island, where Anne embraces the joys and challenges of marriage and building a home of her own. Along the way, she forms meaningful friendships with a colorful cast of neighbors, including the spirited Captain Jim, the sharp-tongued Miss Cornelia Bryant, and the mysterious Leslie Moore, whose troubled past lends the story a deeper emotional complexity.
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island, the stunning Canadian landscape that would serve as the backdrop for almost all of her fiction. Following the tragic death of her mother from tuberculosis when she was only twenty-one months old, she was left in the care of her strict and emotionally distant maternal grandparents. This isolated childhood drove Montgomery to seek solace in her immense imagination, keeping detailed journals and creating vivid imaginary worlds that would later mirror Anne Shirley’s own personality. Despite facing multiple rejections from publishers who initially passed on the manuscript, Montgomery persevered. Behind the immense joy and wonder of her books, her adult life was marked by private hardships, including her husband's severe clinical depression and her own personal struggles, which only fueled her drive to create stories of unyielding hope.
Description
Grey cloth. Minor wear at the spine ends. Original dust jacket in orange with picture of Anne in the center. Wear around extremities to jacket. Fair condition.