Goody Two-Shoes by Unknown
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"Goody Two-Shoes" by Unknown is a children's story published in 1765. The tale follows Margery Meanwell, a poor orphan girl who possesses only one shoe. When a kind gentleman provides her with a complete pair, her joy leads her to tell everyone about her good fortune. Through virtue and determination, Margery becomes a teacher and eventually marries a wealthy widower. This influential work helped establish children's literature as a genre and popularized
the phrase "goody two-shoes" to describe excessively virtuous individuals. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Title | Goody Two-Shoes |
| Note |
Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #37877 (Illustrated in color of modern style) #45278 (Illustrated in color of ancient style) #21428 (Illustrated in color) #13675 (Illustrated with small old Woodcuts) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Little_Goody_Two-Shoes |
| Credits |
Produced by David Edwards, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 83.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Orphans -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Siblings -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 21428 |
| Release Date | May 13, 2007 |
| Last Update | Jan 2, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 383 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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