Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a young girl named Anne who lives as an orphan at the turn of the 20th century. At the age of eleven, she was sent to live with a middle-aged brother and sister on their farm in Prince Edward Island called Green Gables. Although she is not welcome at first, she continues to win the hearts of her hosts and grows into a young woman of character and promise. Anne of Green Gables was written by LM Montgomery in 1908. The book and its characters are fictional, as the story was created in the imagination. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are single siblings who live on their ancestral farm, Green Gables, in the quiet town of Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Matthew is sixty years old, and as he becomes too old to take care of the farm work alone, the Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan boy to help him. This decision shocks the town gossip, Mrs. Rachel Lynde, who does not think Matthew and Marilla are fit to raise a child. Matthew, who is afraid of women, arrives at the station and finds an orphaned girl instead of a boy; the orphanage sent the e...