Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery .
Written for all ages, it has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century.
It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in Prince Edward Island.
The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts,.