Undoubtedly, this story is cute, touching, heartwarming, tear-jerking. In other words, a classic for anyone!
Anne is a young woman beautifully flawed and full of resilient grace. She’s a master portrait of living and loving in the everyday. Montgomery’s writing is wonderfully expressive, the characters are drawn with tremendous insight and humor.
The poignant messages throughout this book are completely necessary for today’s world and it teaches a lot of important things. Anne of Green Gables is a masterpiece that will make every person – man, woman, child – better for having read it.
About the author
Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.[1] Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and those locations within Canada’s smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.