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On novel's 100th anniversary, it's `Anne' more than ever on PEI

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080504
Author:Judy F. Kugel

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island - For 100 years, a freckle- faced, redheaded orphan named Anne Shirley from a fictional village on this island's northern coast has captured the hearts of readers. This year, the island celebrates the centennial of the publication of Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables," and the world is invited. Translated into 36 languages, the book has sold 50 million copies.

Tourists flock to Cavendish, a small farming community when Montgomery grew up and where relatives had a farm nearby named Green Gables, because of Anne. Now each year from June through ...

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