TV · CBC / Netflix
Anne with an E: where to start reading
Adapts Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
DramaHistoricalYA
3 seasons
on screen
3 books
to read
Diverges
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Anne of Green Gables.
through the end of the first book.
The first season primarily adapts the first novel, expanding scenes, backstory, and supporting characters.
Start reading at Anne of Green Gables (the first novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery · Book 1 of 3
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What the show changed here
- ChangedThe show takes a darker, grittier tone than the 1908 novel, signalled even by the retitling from Anne of Green Gables.
- InventedInvented PTSD flashbacks to Anne's pre-Green-Gables abuse are added, where the book only hints at her hard past.
- InventedGilbert's father is written as terminally ill, an early loss the novel does not include.
- InventedThe farmhand Jerry is expanded from a minor book figure into a recurring foil for Anne.
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Season 1 adapts the first novel, Anne of Green Gables. Seasons 2 and 3 borrow selectively from the next two novels (Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island) while adding substantial original characters and storylines, so later seasons run well beyond a faithful book mapping.
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