Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery

The timeless classic of the beloved Anne Shirley, a red-haired orphan with a fiery spirit. School yard rivalries. Baking disasters. Puffed sleeves. Explore the violet vales and the glorious green of Avonlea. Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a real home. Since her parents' deaths, she's bounced around to foster homes and orphanages everywhere. When she is sent by mistake to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at the comfy white farmhouse called Green Gables, she wants to stay forever. But Anne is not the sturdy boy Matthew and Marilla were expecting. She's a mischievous, talkative red headed girl with a fierce temper, who tumbles into one scrape after another. Anne is not like anybody else, she is special, a girl with an enormous imagination. All that she's ever wanted is to belong somewhere. And the longer she stays at Green Gables, the harder it is for anyone to imagine life without her."[Anne is] the dearest and most lovable child in fiction since the immortal Alice." - Mark TwainLucy Maude Montgomery (1874-1942) was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the setting for Anne of Green Gables. She left to attend college, but returned to Prince Edward Island to teach. Anne of Green Gables, the first in a series of "Anne" books by Montgomery, was published in 1908 to immediate success and is a perennial favorite.