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Anne of Green Gables, written by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery and first published in 1908, is one of the most beloved children's novels in English literature and a cornerstone of Canadian literary identity. The novel tells the story of Anne Shirley, an imaginative, talkative, and red-headed eleven-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, an aging brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help with the farm work on their property, Green Gables, in the fictional village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. Despite the initial disappointment, Matthew and Marilla decide to keep Anne, and what follows is a warm and enchanting chronicle of her adventures, misadventures, and growth as she transforms from a lonely and insecure orphan into a confident and beloved member of the community. Anne's vivid imagination, dramatic flair, and tendency to talk incessantly lead her into numerous scrapes—she accidentally gets her best friend Diana Barry drunk on currant wine, dyes her hair green, breaks a slate over classmate Gilbert Blythe's head after he teases her about her hair, and serves a cake flavored with liniment instead of vanilla. But beneath her whimsical exterior, Anne is a deeply sensitive and intelligent girl who longs for love and belonging, and her capacity for joy, romantic sensibility, and unwavering optimism gradually win over everyone around her. Montgomery's prose is lyrical and evocative, and her descriptions of the Prince Edward Island landscape—its cherry blossoms, its "Lake of Shining Waters," its "White Way of Delights"—are rendered through Anne's romantic imagination, making the setting itself a character in the story. The novel explores themes of identity, belonging, the power of imagination, the importance of education, and the transformative power of love and acceptance. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success upon publication and has since sold over 50 million copies worldwide, been translated into more than 36 languages, and spawned numerous sequels, film and television adaptations, and a thriving tourist industry on Prince Edward Island.