An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

"An Old-Fashioned Girl" by Louisa May Alcott is a novel first published in 1869. The story follows Polly Milton, a simple country girl who visits her wealthy friend Fanny Shaw's sophisticated Boston family. Overwhelmed by their fashionable lifestyle and troubled by their lack of affection, Polly's warmth and old-fashioned values gradually transform the Shaw household. Years later, Polly returns as a music teacher, navigating friendship, romance, and the family's financial troubles while staying true to her principles. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Title An Old-Fashioned Girl
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Old-Fashioned_Girl
Credits Produced by David Reed, and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 75.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject City and town life -- Fiction
Subject New England -- Fiction
Subject Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 2787
Release Date
Last Update Jan 27, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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