It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.' - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables is a bestselling 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written as fiction for readers of all ages, the literary classic has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl, age 11 who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marill