АННА ИЗ ЗЕЛЕНЫХ КРЫШ

A red-haired orphan girl arrives at a Prince Edward Island farm by mistake — and proceeds, through sheer force of imagination, personality, and an apparently inexhaustible capacity for getting into trouble, to make herself completely irreplaceable. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert sent for a boy to help on Green Gables farm. What steps off the train is Anne Shirley — eleven years old, freckled, fiercely intelligent, desperately talkative, and possessed of an imagination so vivid and so constantly deployed that the Island landscape around her is immediately populated with kindred spirits, romantic names, and the kind of beauty that only a child who has never been given anything beautiful can see in absolutely everything. Matthew is enchanted within the first five minutes. Marilla takes considerably longer — but the outcome, for both of them, was never really in doubt. Published in 1908 and an immediate international sensation, Anne of Green Gables is one of the most beloved novels in the history of children's literature — a book whose heroine is so fully, radiantly alive that she has made Prince Edward Island a literary destination, inspired eight sequels, and found passionate readers in every country on earth across a hundred and twenty years without losing a particle of her original energy. L. M. Montgomery created in Anne Shirley something genuinely rare — a character whose optimism is never saccharine because it has been earned against real deprivation, whose imagination is never escapist because it transforms the real world rather than fleeing it, and whose growth from orphan to beloved daughter is one of the most genuinely moving arcs in all of popular fiction. Joyful, funny, and quietly profound — Anne of Green Gables is the kind of book that becomes part of the reader who encounters it young, and reveals new depths to the reader who returns to it as an adult.