The Anne of Green Gables Collection: Six Novels (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne’s House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside)

By Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Anne of Green Gables Collection includes Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne’s House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, and Rilla of Ingleside. The six books in this collection recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an orphan girl, as she grows up on Prince Edward Island. As a child, Anne is mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. The series depicts Anne’s experiences with living in a new town and becoming a woman.

Since publication, Anne of Green Gables has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Written for all ages, it has been considered a children’s novel since the mid-twentieth century. It has been adapted as film, made-for-television movies, animated, and live-action television series and is taught to students around the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Engage Books
• Release date: Aug 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781774374801

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942), publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and 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. Since then, Montgomery's work, diaries and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide.

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