This page lists a selection of editions of L.M. Montgomery’s books that were published between 2005 and 2009.
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Contents
Anne of Green Gables (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006)
Anne of Green Gables (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007)
Anne of Green Gables (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2008)
Anne of Green Gables (N.p.: Anchor Canada, 2009)
Anne of Green Gables (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006)
Penguin Classics. Print, jacketed hardcover, 5 13/16” x 7 11/16”, xxviii + 292 pp., 978-0-670-06507-3. Cover art by Darren Booth. Original interior illustrations by M.A. Claus and W.A.J. Claus. Epigraph and dedication omitted.
Additional Content
Introduction, chronology, and further reading by Lisa Moore.
A Note on the Text
This edition is based on a British version of the text, which drops the full stops from abbreviations such as “Mrs.” and “Dr.” and uses single quotation marks instead of double quotation marks. This edition was released as one of several Penguin Classics (Canada) editions in 2006, including of Catharine Parr Traill’s The Backwoods of Canada, Emily Carr’s Klee Wyck, Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush, Frederick Philip Grove’s Settlers of the Marsh, and Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
Sources
A copy of the first printing is in the site owner’s personal collection. Cover art courtesy of Penguin Canada.
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Anne of Green Gables (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007)
A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston. Print, trade paperback, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4, xiii + 445 pp., ISBN 978-0-3939-2695-8. Original illustrations by M.A. Claus and W.A.J. Claus. Epigraph and dedication included.
Additional Content
Preface (vii–ix), “A Note on the Text” (247–60), “Manuscript Additions” (261–67), and “Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Chronology” (427–35) by Mary Henley Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston.
Journal excerpts by L.M. Montgomery, early reviews, and excerpts from critical and contextual essays by a number of scholars, including Gabriella Åhmansson, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Careless, Frank Davey, Cecily Devereux, Elizabeth R. Epperly, Carole Gerson, Marah Gubar, Rosemary Ross Johnston, Clarence Karr, T.D. MacLulich, Juliet McMaster, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Mary Henley Rubio, Carol Shields, Calvin Trillin, Elizabeth Waterston, and Kate Wood.
A Note on the Text
This critical edition of Anne of Green Gables features the original published text as well as the eight original illustrations by M.A. Claus and W.A.J. Claus.
Sources
A copy of the first printing is in the site owner’s personal collection. Cover art courtesy of W.W. Norton and Company.
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Anne of Green Gables (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2008)
100 Years of Anne. Print, unjacketed hardcover, 5 13/16” x 7 11/16”, xiv + 306 pp., ISBN 978-0-670-06780-0. Original interior illustrations by M.A. Claus and W.A.J. Claus. Original cover art by George Gibbs. Epigraph and dedication omitted.
Additional Content
Note by Kate Macdonald Butler and David Macdonald. Excerpt from Budge Wilson’s Before Green Gables, also published that year.
A Note on the Text
This edition, which reproduces the original 1908 cover, draws on a later British version of the text that drops the full stops from abbreviations such as “Mrs.” and “Dr.” and uses single quotation marks instead of double quotation marks.
Sources
A copy of the first printing is in the site owner’s personal collection. Cover art courtesy of Penguin Canada.
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Anne of Green Gables (N.p.: Anchor Canada, 2009)
Anniversary edition. Print, trade paperback with flaps, 5.5” x 8”, x + 385 pp., ISBN 978-0-385-66600-8. Cover design by Jennifer Lum. Epigraph and dedication included.
Although its cover includes the term “Anniversary Edition,” this edition was published one year after the centenary of Anne of Green Gables, which occurred in 2008. Anchor Canada was an imprint of Random House of Canada (Toronto).
“Anne shines on. A ‘bosom friend’ for our times.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald
Additional Content
“Lucy Maud Montgomery,” by Caroline Parry.
Sources
A copy of the first printing is in the site owner’s personal collection. Cover art courtesy of Random House of Canada.
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