“Anne of Green Gables” is one of the best-known novels by the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (in English: Lucy Montgomery, 1874–1942).
*** Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphanage. But by an unforeseen twist of fate, a girl named Anne Shirley ends up with them. Among Lucy Maud Montgomery’s other outstanding works are “The Story Girl,” “The Golden Road,” “Anne of Prince Edward Island,” “Anne and the House of Dreams,” and “Emily of the New Moon.”