Classic·Children's literature
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A sour, orphaned girl discovers a locked sanctuary in the Yorkshire moors, where bruised hearts find miraculous new life.
Shared themes:#nature#childhood
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1908 · Complete work
Anne of Green Gables
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“An indomitable imagination transforms quiet Avonlea when a spirited, red-haired orphan girl arrives by mistake.”
Due to a mix-up in their adoption plans, aging siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert welcome Anne Shirley to their Prince Edward Island farm, Green Gables. Far from the sturdy farm boy they requested, Anne arrives with fiery hair, an endless vocabulary, and a deeply romantic soul. Amid school scrapes, devoted friendships, and unwavering optimism, this beloved novel chronicles how an imaginative orphan gradually wins over an entire rural community.
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Episode 01
~8 min
Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised · I
““It’s just staying, that’s what,” she said as she stepped along the deep-rutted, grassy lane bordered with wild rose bushes.”
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Episode 02
~6 min
Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Surprised · II
““Well, we’ve been thinking about it for some time—all winter in fact,” returned Marilla.”
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Episode 03
~14 min
Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised · I
““The little birds sang as if it were The one day of summer in all the year.””
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Episode 04
~11 min
Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised · II
““Well now, I’m afraid I can’t,” said Matthew, who was getting a little dizzy.”
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Episode 05
~11 min
Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
“Sitting down on a chair by the table, flinging her arms out upon it, and burying her face in them, she proceeded to cry stormily.”
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Episode 06
~11 min
Morning at Green Gables
“Off to the left were the big barns and beyond them, away down over green, low-sloping fields, was a sparkling blue glimpse of sea.”
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Episode 07
~10 min
Anne’s History
““No, I don’t know as I ever did,” said Marilla mercilessly, “and I shouldn’t think it likely to happen in your case either.””
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Episode 08
~10 min
Marilla Makes Up Her Mind
““She certainly did, Miss Cuthbert,” corroborated Flora Jane earnestly.”
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Episode 09
~6 min
Anne Says Her Prayers
““I was so harrowed up in my mind last night that I didn’t think about my clothes at all,” said Anne.”
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Episode 10
~8 min
Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun · I
““You haven’t scalded the dishcloth in clean hot water as I told you to do,” said Marilla immovably.”
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Episode 11
~6 min
Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun · II
“She felt it dreadfully, too, I know she did, for she was crying when she kissed me good-bye through the bookcase door.”
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Episode 12
~12 min
Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified
““I don’t suppose you are any more surprised than I am myself,” said Marilla.”
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Episode 13
~12 min
Anne’s Apology
““It’s a good thing Rachel Lynde got a calling down; she’s a meddlesome old gossip,” was Matthew’s consolatory rejoinder.”
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Episode 14
~9 min
Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-school
““But I’d rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself,” persisted Anne mournfully.”
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Episode 15
~10 min
A Solemn Vow and Promise
““I don’t see why it’s any more ridiculous to wear flowers on your hat than on your dress,” protested Anne.”
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Episode 16
~9 min
The Delights of Anticipation
“The more she talks and the odder the things she says, the more he’s delighted evidently.”
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Episode 17
~9 min
Anne’s Confession · I
““I—I saw it this afternoon when you were away at the Aid Society,” said Anne, a little slowly.”
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Episode 19
~10 min
A Tempest in the School Teapot · I
“Anne, starting out alone in the morning, went down Lover’s Lane as far as the brook.”
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Episode 20
~10 min
A Tempest in the School Teapot · II
“He was a tall boy, with curly brown hair, roguish hazel eyes, and a mouth twisted into a teasing smile.”
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Episode 21
~6 min
A Tempest in the School Teapot · III
““It isn’t nonsense at all,” said Anne, gazing at Marilla with solemn, reproachful eyes.”
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Episode 22
~11 min
Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results · I
““Messy things,” said Marilla, whose aesthetic sense was not noticeably developed.”
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Episode 23
~8 min
Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results · II
““Oh, you mustn’t dream of going home without your tea,” cried Anne in distress.”
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Episode 24
~10 min
A New Interest in Life
““Oh, Diana, will you promise faithfully never to forget me, the friend of your youth, no matter what dearer friends may caress thee?””
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Episode 25
~10 min
Anne to the Rescue · I
““Well now, no, I didn’t,” said Matthew, coming out of his doze with a start.”
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Episode 26
~7 min
Anne to the Rescue · II
“I tell you she saved that baby’s life, for it would have been too late by the time I got there.”
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Episode 27
~11 min
A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession · I
““You can go, but you’re to be back here in just ten minutes, remember that.””
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Episode 28
~9 min
A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession · II
““So you and Diana nearly frightened poor old Miss Barry to death last night?” said Mrs. Lynde severely, but with a twinkle in her eye.”
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Episode 29
~11 min
A Good Imagination Gone Wrong
““I’m so sorry for people who live in lands where there are no Mayflowers,” said Anne.”
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Episode 30
~10 min
A New Departure in Flavorings · I
““I don’t think I was crying because I was really so very fond of him,” reflected Anne.”
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Episode 31
~8 min
A New Departure in Flavorings · II
““It’ll be good, all right,” assured Diana, who was a very comfortable sort of friend.”
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Episode 32
~7 min
Anne Is Invited Out to Tea
““Mrs. Allan told me she meant to have all the members of her Sunday-school class to tea in turn,” said Marilla, regarding the wonderful event very coolly.”
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Episode 33
~12 min
Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor
““I don’t think it’s such a very wonderful thing to walk a little, low, board fence,” she said.”
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Episode 34
~8 min
Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert
““Well now, you might recite it for me some of these days, out in the barn,” suggested Matthew.”
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Episode 35
~10 min
Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves · I
“Marilla kept her clothed in plain, dark dresses, all made after the same unvarying pattern.”
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Episode 36
~7 min
Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves · II
““Well, well, let us have breakfast,” interrupted Marilla.”
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Episode 37
~9 min
The Story Club Is Formed · I
“To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for weeks.”
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Episode 38
~4 min
The Story Club Is Formed · II
““But we’re so careful to put a moral into them all, Marilla,” explained Anne.”
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Episode 39
~8 min
Vanity and Vexation of Spirit · I
““I’ll settle Miss Anne when she comes home,” said Marilla grimly, as she shaved up kindlings with a carving knife and with more vim than was strictly necessary.”
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Episode 40
~4 min
Vanity and Vexation of Spirit · II
““Oh, Marilla, what shall I do?” questioned Anne in tears.”
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Episode 41
~8 min
An Unfortunate Lily Maid · I
““Oh, do you really think so?” exclaimed Anne, flushing sensitively with delight.”
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Episode 42
~6 min
An Unfortunate Lily Maid · II
““I’m very much obliged to you,” she said haughtily as she turned away.”
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Episode 43
~11 min
An Epoch in Anne’s Life · I
““Charlotte Gillis is going to be married in the church after all and Mrs. Allan wants us to decorate it,” cried Anne.”
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Episode 44
~5 min
An Epoch in Anne’s Life · II
“I was so excited I couldn’t even talk, so you may know what it was like.”
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Episode 45
~13 min
The Queen’s Class Is Organized · I
“She had been reading, but her book had slipped to the floor, and now she was dreaming, with a smile on her parted lips.”
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Episode 46
~9 min
The Queen’s Class Is Organized · II
““What is Gilbert Blythe going to be?” queried Marilla, seeing that Anne was opening her Cæsar.”
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Episode 47
~11 min
Where the Brook and River Meet
““I feel just like studying with might and main,” she declared as she brought her books down from the attic.”
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Episode 48
~8 min
The Pass List Is Out · I
““You oughtn’t to feel half as badly as I do,” said Anne, hunting vainly for a dry spot on her handkerchief.”
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Episode 49
~6 min
The Pass List Is Out · II
““I haven’t got the grit to go there and look at a paper in cold blood,” he told Anne.”
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Episode 50
~10 min
The Hotel Concert · I
“Changes had crept in, Marilla conniving at them resignedly, until it was as sweet and dainty a nest as a young girl could desire.”
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Episode 51
~7 min
The Hotel Concert · II
“Josie Pye, whom he had driven over, sat beside him, and her face certainly was both triumphant and taunting.”
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Episode 52
~12 min
A Queen’s Girl
““No, I wasn’t crying over your piece,” said Marilla, who would have scorned to be betrayed into such weakness by any poetry stuff.”
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Episode 53
~8 min
The Winter at Queen’s
““But I shouldn’t think she was the sort of girl Gilbert would like,” whispered Jane to Anne.”
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Episode 54
~10 min
The Glory and the Dream
““Of course you’ll win one of them anyhow,” said Jane, who couldn’t understand how the faculty could be so unfair as to order it otherwise.”
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Episode 55
~12 min
The Reaper Whose Name Is Death
““Mrs. Lynde, you don’t think—you can’t think Matthew is—is—” Anne could not say the dreadful word; she turned sick and pallid.”
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Episode 57
~6 min
The Bend in the Road · II
““But I’m going to study Latin and Greek just the same, Mrs. Lynde,” said Anne laughing.”
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Public-domain work (1908). Text: Project Gutenberg #45. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more