Description:
This treasured children's classic chronicles the journey of a little red-headed orphan, Anne Shirley, as she struggles to settle into her new life on Prince Edward Island.
Brief description: L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author whose fiction drew on the landscape of her native Prince Edward Island. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), has sold more than fifty million copies and been translated into thirty-six languages. Throughout her life, she wrote more than twenty novels across several beloved series - the further Anne books, the Emily of New Moon trilogy, the Story Girl books, and the Pat of Silver Bush novels - as well as standalones such as Jane of Lantern Hill. Her work remains among the best-loved in classic children's literature.
Review Quotes:
""It is only necessary to read a few pages of the book to be assured that Anne of Green Gables is in conception and style, the fruit (the first fruit, we believe) of a richly endowed mind of rare imaginative capacity. Her scenes and the personages with which she peoples them become real as one reads."" - The Gazette, 1908
""Anne of Green Gables is the dearest, most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice."" - Mark Twain, 1908
""It is a gem even, with her red hair and freckles. We should dearly have loved Anne Shirley in the flesh."" - Temple Scott, 1908