Anne of Green Gables: Illustrated by Sybil Tawse [Hardcover]

No children’s library is complete without this beautiful hardcover edition of the beloved classic Anne of Green Gables, featuring gorgeous illustrations by Sybil Tawse.

An eleven-year-old orphan, Anne Shirley, arrives at the enchanting Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island and wins the hearts of everyone at Avonlea with her mischievous and warm spirit. This is a classic story so popular that it spawned eight sequels after its initial publication in 1908 and has sold millions of copies since.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines.Anne [Shirley] has charmed readers for over a century” —Ann Mah, The New York Times

Aficionados of the auburn-tressed waif will find Anne of Green Gables lavishly illustrated. —Smithsonian MagazineLUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY (1874–1942) was born in the village of Clifton (now New London) on Prince Edward Island in Canada. She was brought up by her grandparents after her mother died when she was two. Later her father moved away to Saskatchewan, where he remarried, and when she spent some months in his new home she was not happy. 'I do not think', she wrote, 'that the majority of grownups have any real conception of the tortures sensitive children suffer over any marked difference between themselves and the other denizens of their small world.'

While working as a reporter for the Halifax Daily Echo, she wrote Anne of Green Gables in the evenings over a period of eighteen months and when it was rejected by four publishers she put it away for two years. Then she revised it and a Boston publisher acló7