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The adventures of high-spirited Anne, which have inspired multiple
TV and movie adaptations, is now available in an unabridged
hardcover edition that’s a perfect gift for today’s young
readers. Â When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert ask the
orphanage for a boy to help on the farm, they are surprised to
receive Anne—a talkative, dreamy, red-haired, freckle-faced girl.
Despite Anne’s imaginative antics, her presence fills the small
town of Avonlea with joy and laughter. Filled with evocative
descriptions of Prince Edward Island, this beloved classic is now
available in a collectible hardcover edition, complete with
black-and-white illustrations that bring the story to life.
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on
determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative
imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the
lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a
girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of
transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of
Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow
from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and
not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own
red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works
it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the
true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end
of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own
story.
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are unmarried siblings who live on
their ancestral farm, Green Gables, in the quiet town of Avonlea in
Prince Edward Island, Canada. They apply to adopt a boy from an
orphanage. By mistake, however, a red-haired, freckle-faced
11-year-old girl named Anne Shirley is sent to the Cuthbert
siblings. They decide to keep her despite her not being of the
appropriate gender. Anne takes much joy in life and adapts quickly,
thriving in the close-knit farming village. Her imagination and
talkativeness soon brighten up Green Gables. Though Anne has good
intentions, she gets into a lot of trouble. She often finds herself
in conflict with her adoptive mother and other local women, as she
has trouble acting like a "proper lady" and abiding by standard
rules of etiquette and social expectations. The Cuthbert's agree;
she is special - a girl with an enormous imagination.
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