Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables is an 1908 novel by Canadian author L.M.

Montgomery about a spirited, imaginative orphan girl sent to live on a Prince Edward Island farm.

The book spawned sequels, adaptations, and a tourism industry.

The title character's name, Anne Shirley, has become shorthand for a talkative, red-haired dreamer: She's such an Anne of Green Gables type.

Opposites
literary character temperament

Anne of Green GablesEeyore

Ebenezer Scrooge · Holden Caulfield · Miss Havisham · Severus Snape · Heathcliff

literary setting and tone

Anne of Green GablesOliver Twist

A Clockwork Orange · 1984 · Lord of the Flies · The Jungle · Trainspotting

orphan narrative trajectory

Anne of Green GablesOliver Twist

Heathcliff · David Copperfield · Cosette · Holden Caulfield · Ebenezer Scrooge

Family

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G