Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery · 1908 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Modernist

An ageing brother and sister farming on Prince Edward Island send to the orphanage for a boy to help with the chores and are met at the station by a talkative red-haired girl instead. She renames every pond and lane she passes, breaks a slate over a classmate's head, and works her way from charity case to the head of the school. Montgomery's Avonlea became the most translated Canadian book and the founding text of the orphan-heroine story.

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• alludes to ↑ Idylls of the King
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1859 CE · Poem

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