Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The setting is the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island in the late 19th century, where the 11-year-old orphan girl Anne Shirley is sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. The novel recounts Anne's joys and challenges in settling in to her new - and first real - home Green Gables, the country school, and the town. The narrative is a chain of delightful episodes about Anne’s friendship with Diana Barry, her rivalry with her classmate Gilbert, her literary ambitions, and her conflicts with the horrible Pye sisters.

Anne of Green Gables has become a children’s classic, and has been translated into more than 30 languages.