description: Harvest is ended and summer is gone, quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistledown drifted by on the wings of a wind that was still summer-sweet with the incense of ferns in the Haunted Wood. But everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. The sea was roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and sere, scarfed with golden rod, the brook valley below Green Gables overflowed with asters of ethereal purple, and the Lake of Shining Waters was blue-blue-blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all moods and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquility unbroken by fickle dreams.
language: English
title: Anne of the Island
titlecomplete: Anne of the Island
characters: Marilla Cuthbert, Jane Andrews, Dora Keith, Charlie Sloane, Anne Shirley, Diana Barry, Philippa Gordon, Billy Andrews, Roy Gardner, Stella Maynard, Rachel Lynde, Priscilla Grant, Davy Keith, Gilbert Blythe, Ruby Gillis
genres: Romance, Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Audiobook, Canada, Historical, Young Adult, Classics
ratings_count: 167697
places: Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
series: Anne of Green Gables
publisher: 1st World Library