title: Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables Novels)
author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
description: Lucy Maud Montgomery was one of the most famous Canadian writers of the twentieth century. She is best known for her books for young adults, particularly Anne of Green Gables and its six sequels.
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  Anne of Green Gables
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lucy Maud Montgomery
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised
  
  Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a
  little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a
  brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it
  was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through
  those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached
  Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a
  brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency
  and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her
  window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and
  children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would
  never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.
  
  There are plenty of people in Avonlea and out of 