Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Jan 2021 · Principis

About this eBook

As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever... but will the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows shes not what they expected a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince them to let her stay, shell try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind. Anne is not like anyone else, the Cuthberts agree she is special a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables.

About the author

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. She was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, November 30, 1874. She came to live at Leaskdale, north of Uxbridge, Ontario, in 1911 after her wedding with Reverend Ewen Macdonald in Prince Edward Island. Her three children were born at Leaskdale, and she wrote close to a dozen books while she was living in the Leaskdale Manse before the Macdonald family moved to Norval, Ontario, in 1926. Maud died in Toronto April 24, 1942 and was buried at Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.