Mathew Cuthberth

Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, brother and sister who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea on Prince Edward Island in Canada, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia asa helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, the person who ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please and talkative,and extremely imaginative. She does not see herself as beautiful, but is interesting-looking, with a pale countenance dotted with freckles, and long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination,however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island. She is something of a chatterbox, which initially drives the prim, duty-driven Marillato distraction, although shy Matthew falls for her immediately.They become what Anne calls 'kindred spirits'.
The rest of the book recounts her continued education at school, where she excels instudies very quickly; her budding literary ambitions and her friendships with people such as Diana Barry (her best friend, "bosom friend" as Anne fondly calls her), Jane Andrews, and Ruby Gillis; and herrivalry with Gilbert Blythe, who teases her about her red hair and for that earns her hatred, although he apologizes many times. Anne and Gilbert compete in class and Anne one day realizes she nolonger hates Gilbert, but will not admit it; at the end of the book, they become very good friends.
The book also follows her misadventures in quiet, old-fashioned Avonlea. These adventures include hergames with her friends (Diana, Jane and Ruby), her rivalries with the Pye sisters (Gertie and Josie), and her domestic mistakes such as dyeing her hair green or accidentally getting Diana drunk (bygiving her what she thinks is raspberry cordial but is actually red currant wine). Anne eventually goes to the Queen's Academy, along with Gilbert.
Near the end of the book, Matthew dies of a heart...