Anne of Green Gables
- Written By L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
- L. M. Montgomery
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Anne of Green Gables
Elderly siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert send word to an orphanage for a boy to help work their Prince Edward Island farm. What arrives instead is Anne Shirley—red-haired, freckled, talkative, and bursting with imagination—an eleven-year-old girl who has never in her life been truly wanted. Too kind to refuse such a child, the Cuthberts take her in, and nothing at Green Gables would ever be quite the same again.
Published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has sold more than fifty million copies and been translated into dozens of languages, turning Montgomery’s small green corner of Prince Edward Island into a place of pilgrimage for readers from around the world. Its unstoppable heroine has charmed audiences across a century of stage plays, films, and television, solidifying her as one of the most beloved characters in children’s literature.
Few have captured so tenderly the ache of longing to belong, or the joy of finding, at last, a place to call home.
The time has come to return to Green Gables and rediscover the radiance of young Anne now in a fresh reprint for a new generation of readers.
About the Author
- L. M. Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in 1874 in Clifton, on Canada’s Prince Edward Island. Her mother died before she was two, and her father, unable to raise her alone, left her in the care of her strict maternal grandparents in the small community of Cavendish. It was a lonely upbringing, and the girl filled it with reading, writing, and long solitary rambles through the island’s woods and shore, the very landscape that would later fill her fiction.
Montgomery trained as a teacher and worked briefly as a newspaper proofreader, all the while selling poems and short stories to magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1905 she completed her first novel, based on a brief note she had jotted years earlier about an orphan sent by mistake to an elderly couple who had asked for a boy. Several publishers rejected it before it found a home.
Anne of Green Gables appeared in 1908 and was an immediate success, selling briskly and drawing an admiring letter from Mark Twain. Montgomery went on to write more than twenty novels, many of them sequels charting Anne’s later life. She married a Presbyterian minister, raised a family, and continued to write through years of private struggle and depression. She died in Toronto in 1942, honored as one of Canada’s best-loved authors.
