When Mattew and Marilla Cuthbert sand to an orphanage for a boy to help them at green gables their farm in Canada they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps off the train. Anne, Red-headed. Pugnacious and incurably romantic cause chaos at Green Gables and in the village. But her wit and good nature make her a firm favourite not only in the fictional community on Prince Edward Island but also with the generation of the reader on either side of the Atlantic.