Last class marked the hundredth day of remembrance of the publication ofAnne of Green Gables , Lucy Maud Montgomery ’s first Christian Bible about Anne , the redheaded orphan of Canada ’s Prince Edward Island , and her mishap . But this yr , Anne fans are in for a treat .
This week , theAnne of Green Gablescanon ( the Anne - on ? ) is expand : Publisher Penguin is let go of the consummate version ofThe Blythes Are Quoted , Montgomery ’s very last installment in the Anne series . The book , dropped off at her publishing firm ’s on the day of the author ’s expiry in 1942 , was published in part in 1974 , lacking about 100 pages of narrative and poems . This version includes 15 " new" short stories about Anne , as well as poetry ostensibly by the heroine and her Logos Walter , a soldier who die during World War I. The book is also a minute of a departure from the weak - hearted optimism that marked Anne ’s other appearances — this one includes references to some seriously disconsolate discipline , such as execution , revenge , end , desperation , bitterness , and reflect Montgomery ’s own opposition to warfare .
With that in thinker , here are a few facts about everyone ’s pet redheaded orphan ( no , the other redheaded orphan ) and the adult female who created her :
Anne of Green Gableswas the first of L.M. Montgomery ’s books about Anne Shirley , a solitary redheaded orphan who come to live with the midriff - aged Cuthberts , the stern Marilla and her brother , Matthew , on Prince Edward Island . Anne is clever and supremely inventive , if melodramatic and disposed to " getting into scrapes"—like the time she unintentionally beat her best friend Diana drunk on currant wine-colored , or when she broke a slate over Gilbert Blythe ’s head . Anne and her " fag ways" would go on to look in 10 more books , becoming the Island ’s bright student , come through a learning and going to college , before come back to Avonlea to marry Gilbert Blythe and raise six children.*Anne of Green Gableswas a massive strike when it was first put out in 1908 , so much so that publisher bring out 10 impression of the script in the first class alone . Even Mark Twain was reportedly a fan , calling Anne " the dearest and most loveable small fry in fiction" since Lewis Carroll ’s Alice . The following year , Anne was introduced to Europe , where she became an instantaneous phenomenon . At least 50 million copy in 36 languages ofAnne of Green Gableshave been sell worldwide.*Anne is huge in Japan . Like Harry Potter vast . Anne of Green Gableswas translate into Japanese by a well-thought-of and well - known Japanese writer ; in 1952 , when Nipponese officials were face for translation of enriching , inspirational westerly lit to teach in schools , Anne became part of the Nipponese curriculum . Japan fell head over heels for Anne , find her red hair exotic , her industrious mental attitude and genial nature endearing , and her story of deliver the goods over the town inspirational.*Anne has become an entrenched part of Japanese culture : There is an Anne Academy , a breast feeding school dub the " Green Gables School of Nursing,“ and several national fan gild . mass get splice in Anne - theme weddings , thousands of Japanese holidaymaker visit Prince Edward Island each year , and resume still systematically find that the book is the most preferred of untested women across Japan . In 2008 , Canada and Japan make anime - stylus Anne impression have character from the book . The impression were so pop in Japan that they sold 10 million of the 15 million run in the first month of their release.*During World War II , Polish soldier were issued copies of Anne to take with them to the front , while on the home base front , the books were a big part of the palmy bleak market . Feisty Anne was something of a fighter who is even now celebrated :
This year, Polish celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the book’s European debut attracted thousands of teenagers and children, many dressed in costume and, reports say, “pumping their fists into the air.“ The kids even mobbed the Canadian ambassador for his autograph when he showed up to open the celebration.
( The book was really transform into Polish in 1912 , but had arrived in other languages in 1909.)*In 1934,Anne of Green Gableswas made into a film — star an actress named Anne Shirley in the deed of conveyance role . Shirley , who was at the time only 16 years old , was really born Dawn Paris , but was so taken with the fiber Anne that she decided to take her name in actual life story as well . ( More on Shirleyhere.)*Anne is still big commercial enterprise : On Prince Edward Island , which together with owns the trademarked term " Anne of Green Gables" with Montgomery ’s heirs , Anne - devotee can purchase Anne tea leaf solidifying , Anne husk hats , Anne candy , Anne notation menu and pencil , Anne dolls , Anne cookbooks , and Anne light substitution . Then there are the whirl - offs , the movies , the mini - serial , the stage musicals and fun ; last class , an clear prequel calledBefore Green Gablesby 81 - year - honest-to-goodness Canadian author Budge Wilson was published with gravid success.*Despite the inspirational , even borderline mawkish , storey that she wrote , L.M. Montgomery was not always a happy woman . Montgomery ’s mother died when she was very immature and her remote father sent her off to live with her severe Presbyterian grandparents . Unlike Anne , however , Montgomery was never able to come through over her adopted menage and her childhood was not a felicitous one . When her father remarried , Montgomery was sent to dwell with her don ’s new family , but less as a girl and more as a live - in handmaiden , pulled out of school to take care of her stepmother ’s new child .
Do you have any Anne memories ? Do you love the redheaded heroine — or did you detest her ?
