Anne of Green GablesAnne of Green Gables is a beloved novel written by Lucy Maud Montgomery, first published in 1908. It is the first book in the Anne series and tells the story of an imaginative and spirited orphan girl named Anne Shirley, who is mistakenly sent to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, a brother and sister who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help with their farm, Green Gables, in the fictional village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island,