[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1: Anne of Green Gables, an abridged translation for children by Hanako Muraoka, the protagonist of the 2014 morning drama series. It was Hanako Muraoka, the translator, who came up with the title "Anne of Green Gables," which is widely known in Japan. During World War II, she went through many hardships, including carrying the manuscript into an air-raid shelter, to translate "Anne of Green Gables," and after the war, in 1952, she was finally able t...
Simply and consistently charming
This is the original Hanako Muraoka translation of LM Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, abridged and fully furigana-ed for younger readers (the unabridged version is here). According to the afterward, no story content was cut and most of the edits were minor -- to modernize vocabulary or reword sentences to be clearer -- but I don't own the original to confirm the extent of the changes.
Difficulty- and learning-wise, I found it to be pretty chall