Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, elderly brother and sister, had never married. They live at Green Gables, their parents' farm on Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. A neighbor went to the mainland to adopt a little girl. Marilla decided Matthew needed a boy to help on the farm, so they asked the neighbor to bring them back a boy of 10 or 11.
When Matthew went to pick up the boy at the train station, the only child there is a freckled, red-haired, 11-year-old GIRL! He took her home, since he couldn't very well leave her at the station. She talked incessantly all the way home, and by the time they got there, Matthew was enchanted. Marilla, though, was very unhappy and the next day took her back to the neighbor. But even she had second thoughts and ended up taking her back home again.
Her name is Anne Shirley, and she is totally irrepressible. She is always getting in trouble, not because she means to, but because trouble just seems to find her. She has a lively imagination, which causes no end of complications in her life. Eventually, Matthew and Marilla can't even imagine their life without her.
This is another favorite children's book that I read because it is over 100 years old. I enjoyed it thoroughly; I had forgotten what a delight Anne Shirley was.
198 pages
Published in 1908
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