Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Montgomery | Luxe Edition | Wordsworth Classics | Hardcover Book Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed, the whole rural community of Avonlea somehow comes under Anne’s influence. We see her grow from a girl to a sixteen-year-old woman, making her mistakes and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom S