Review: An impressive collection of classic stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2013
Sometime around 1955, when I was nine years old, my mom bought a set of classic books for my sister and me, hoping to inspire us to start reading for recreation. They were books like Treasure Island, Black Beauty, and of course, Anne of Green Gables. Her plan worked, at least for me, as I began a lifelong love affair with books. At the time, I read Anne of Green Gables, but I never read any of the other books in the series about the life of the fictional Anne Shirley. Now, with this Kindle collection, it's possible to read all of the series (except for two books*) inexpensively and without carrying around a ton of paper books.This is an impressive collection, properly formatted and with hotlinks to each title, and to chapters within titles. In addition to the Anne of Green Gables books, there are several bonus books by Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery. I don't know if I'll ever get around to reading the other books in the series, but it's nice to have them on my Kindle if I do.* The two missing books are Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) and Anne of Ingleside (1939), two books that were published more than a decade after the original series. These are the only books in the series that are not yet in the public domain.