Considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century, Anne of Green Gables was written by a Canadian author, L.M.Montgomery in 1908, and since then, it has been translated into at least 36 languages and has sold more than 50 million copies, making it one of thebest-selling booksglobally.
The novel narrates an 11-year-old orphan girl Anne, who many consider the favorite and most lovable child in fiction since the immortal. Since her parents' death, Anne lived in orphanages and stranger's homes, and as fate would have it, she was mistakenly taken to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at a farmhouse called Green Gables.
Anne was a girl, yet the Cuthberts wanted a boy from the orphanage, they initially wanted her back. However, given her endearing character, vivid imagination, and talkativeness, which brighten Green Gables farm, they let her to stay.
Owing to her fiery spirit, Anne settles quickly in the farm and makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the community. While in school, she met her best friend Diana Barry, as well as her sworn enemy Gilbert Blythe who earned the place for teasing her about her red hair. Her excellence in education is seen when she obtained her teaching license in one year instead of the usual two and won the Avery Scholarship awarded to the top student in English.
In what would be considered her second phase of misfortune, Matthew dies of a heart attack, and Anne gives up the scholarship to stay at home and help Marilla, whose eyesight is failing. Gilbert Blythe, an enemy, turned friend after Anne forgave him transferred to a nearby school, knowing that Anne wants to stay close to Marilla after Matthew's death.
Following this kind act, Anne and Gilbert's friendship is cemented, and Anne looks forward to what life will bring next, hoping it would have an ever happy moment.
