Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has become one of the most-read and best-loved stories in the world. Translated into more than twenty languages and with at least fifty million copies sold worldwide, L. M. Montgomery’s classic novel has made her talkative and impulsive heroine Anne Shirley not only a Canadian icon but an international treasure as well. As inspiring today as it was a hundred years ago, Anne of Green Gables remains a testament to the powers of hope, friendship, and imagination.
This special gift edition, authorized by the heirs of L. M. Montgomery to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the first publication of the novel, features a note from two of Montgomery’s grandchildren, Kate Macdonald Butler and David Macdonald.
From the Cover:
A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey. She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair. Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, that looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others.
So far the ordinary observer; an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child.
