Hi everyone! In May, we shall give you a summary on four novels by the female author L.M.Montgomery — The Anne of Green Gables Novels. 

各位读者朋友，步入初夏的五月，这份书单与一个天真烂漫的女孩安妮有关。本期推介四本女作家L.M.Montgomery的小说《绿山墙的安妮故事系列》。

About the Author

作者简介

Lucy Maud Montgomery at 9

9岁时的女作家

L.M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery) was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, on November 30, 1874. As an only child living with an elderly couple, Montgomery found companionship in her imagination, nature, books, and writing. When she was nine, she began writing poetry and keeping a journal.

加拿大女作家蒙哥玛利于1874年11月30日出生于加拿大爱德华王子岛的克里夫顿。她的父母是老来得女；所以她从小养成了以想象、大自然、书本和写作为伴的习惯。自九岁起，她便开始创作诗歌和固定记日记。

In 1905, she wrote her first and most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables. She sent the manuscript to several publishers, but, after receiving rejections from all of them, she put it away in a hat box. In 1907, she found the manuscript again, re-read it, and decided to try again to have it published. Anne of Green Gables was accepted by the Page Company of Boston, Massachusetts and published in 1908. An immediate best-seller, the book marked the beginning of Montgomery's successful career as a novelist.

1905年，作家创作了她的第一本，后来也被证明是最著名的作品：绿山墙的安妮。她将作品寄给数家出版商，却都遭到退稿。于是，她把手稿锁进一只帽箱里。两年后，她找出手稿，又读了一遍，打算再试试出版的运气。这一次，波士顿的一家出版公司接受了稿件，于1908年出版。这本书一出版便大受欢迎，蒙哥玛利也就此一炮打红，后续创作了绿山墙的安妮故事系列，一共八本。

Let’s see the other four novels of this set:

让我们来看看这一套丛书中的后四本：

5

Anne's House of Dreams

《梦中小屋的安妮》

索书号I711.84/4

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Anne’s own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor.

安妮和医生吉尔伯特坠入爱河，在洒满阳光的果园里，朋友们的簇拥下，喜结连理。这一对幸福的小夫妻即将扬帆驶入新的生活，并且住进他们梦寐以求的小屋里，这座小屋在“四风港”那雾气弥漫的紫色沙滩上，真的如梦似幻。

A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and meet their neighbors: Captain Jim, the lighthouse attendant, with his sad stories of the sea; Miss Cornelia Bryant, the lady who speaks from the heart--and speaks her mind; and the tragically beautiful Leslie Moore, into whose dark life Anne shines a brilliant light.

当然，新的生活也带来了新的挑战和新的契机。安妮和吉尔伯特即将遇到新邻居，结识新朋友；其中有管理灯塔的吉姆船长，他总是絮絮叨叨讲着伤怀的海上故事；还有心直口快的克利尼亚小姐，她总是想什么就说什么。莱斯利.摩尔则是一个貌美如花的林妹妹，是安妮给她黑暗的生活带来了亮光。

6

Anne of Ingleside

《壁炉山庄的安妮》

索书号I711.84/5

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Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting-and wearing out her welcome--Anne’s life is full to bursting.

安妮已经成了五个孩子的母亲，家里没有一刻安宁的时候。很快，第六个孩子又将诞生，而不知疲倦的玛利亚姨妈又经常来访，已经耗尽了安妮的耐心。这可真是一刻也停不下来的生活！

Still, Mrs. Doctor can’t think of any place she’d rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn’t love her anymore. How could that be? She maybe a little older, but she’s still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead--the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. She is ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again!

但是，医生夫人安妮还是觉得，外面的世界哪怕再好，到底还是壁炉山庄最好。可是，突然有一天，她发现，吉尔伯特似乎没有从前那么爱她了。这是怎么回事？也许她的岁数长了，但是她还是那个倔强的，正直的，单纯的红发安妮——她一定要重新赢回丈夫的爱！

7

Rainbow Valley

《彩虹谷》

索书号I711.84/6

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Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert, and is the mother of six mischievous children. These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when a strange family moves into an old mansion nearby. The Meredith clan is two boys and two girls--and a runaway named Mary Vance. Soon the Merediths join Anne’s children in their private hideout, intent on carrying out their plans to save Mary from the orphanage...their is always an adventure brewing in the sun-dappled world of Rainbow Valley.

安妮有六个调皮可爱的孩子，他们开辟了一块属于自己的领土。但是他们没有想到，附近的庄园搬来了一家奇怪的新邻居：马尔蒂斯一家。这家有两个男孩两个女孩，还有一个逃走的孩子玛丽。很快，马尔蒂斯家的孩子和安妮的孩子打成一片，开始执行他们对玛丽的营救计划。阳光斑驳的彩虹谷从来不缺历险记。

8

Rilla of Ingleside

《壁炉山庄的丽拉》

索书号I711.84/7

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Anne’s children are almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one can resist her bright hazal eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can’t think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside is endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and changes her forever.

安妮的孩子只剩下丽拉还没有完全长大；这是个漂亮外向的孩子，没人能抵抗她灿烂的微笑和褐色的眼睛。丽拉快十五岁了，她并没有很大的理想，除了去四风港的灯塔参加第一次舞会，和让英俊的肯尼斯亲吻她一下。但是，挑战很快来袭，壁炉山庄受到了战争的威胁，丽拉的哥哥们成了战士，丽拉也在一个汤盆里发现了一个弃婴，并把他带回了家。她被卷入了一场身不由己的考验，也在这段经历当中成长了起来。（八本书完结）