L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908, endures as one of the most cherished masterpieces in children’s literature, and with ample justification. It is a radiant, wryly humorous, and profoundly poignant novel that exalts the sovereignty of imagination, the ache for belonging, and the alchemical force of love and communal bonds. Far surpassing the confines of a conventional bildungsroman, it constitutes an exquisite vignette of fin-de-siècle rural Canada while simultaneously o