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Another coming-of-age novel from the author of beloved favorite Little Women Polly Milton never questions the way she is--until she goes to visit her cousins in the city. Her cousin Fanny looks too glamorous to be Polly's age, and wouldn't be caught dead playing in the snow... Read Full Overview

Another coming-of-age novel from the author of beloved favorite Little Women Polly Milton never questions the way she is--until she goes to visit her cousins in the city. Her cousin Fanny looks too glamorous to be Polly's age, and wouldn't be caught dead playing in the snow... Read Full Overview

First published in 1869, "An Old-Fashioned Girl" is the charming novel of a young country girl learning to navigate sophisticated city-life by celebrated American author Louisa May Alcott. Appearing a year after the publication of her most famous work, "Little Women", Alcott's... Read Full Overview

" An Old-Fashioned Girl " was written by Louisa May Alcott and first published in 1869, is an American classic that celebrates timeless virtues and the importance of staying true to oneself in a rapidly changing world. Very popular in its day, and still relevant now, a great... Read Full Overview

Step into an enchanting world where the clash between old fashioned values and modern city life unfolds. An Old-Fashioned Girl by American author Louisa May Alcott is an enchanting coming of age novel first published in 1869. Despite being written in the 19th Century, the novel... Read Full Overview

As the first part of "An Old-Fashioned Girl" was written in 1869, the demand for a sequel, in beseeching little letters that made refusal impossible, rendered it necessary to carry my heroine boldly forward some six or seven years into the future. The domestic nature of the story... Read Full Overview

An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott. It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consisted of only six chapters. For the finished product, however, Alcott continued the story from the chapter "Six Years Afterwards"... Read Full Overview

Over the course of summers spent with a much wealthier friend, a country girl struggles to stay true to herself and her values in this tender story from Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women!

Country girl Polly Milton plies her sweet demeanor and practical ways to teach the citified Shaw family that time-tested, old-fashioned values are the surest way to a happy life. Sprinkled with wry commentary from the author, Louisa May Alcott's classic is bursting with enduring... Read Full Overview

Louisa May Alcott was a legendary American author in the nineteenth century. Alcott's parents were well known transcendentalists in New England and she grew up with other famous authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. With classic works... Read Full Overview

Esta es la historia de Polly Milton, una muchacha de campo, d e catorce a os, que viene a la ciudad a pasar una temporada con su amiga Fanny Shaw. Polly queda muy impresionada por la vida tan diferente a la suya que Fanny lleva. Siempre va a la moda y le gusta coquetear con los... Read Full Overview

AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL

(illustrated) complete edition with old classic and original illustrations

An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott first published in 1869.

The first six chapters of the novel... Read Full Overview

Louisa May Alcott is best known for her classic coming-of-age novel "Little Women." But she tackles an entirely different part of growing up in "An Old Fashioned Girl," the story of a country mouse living with a wealthy urban family in late 19th-century America. Polly Milton... Read Full Overview

Originally serialised in the "Merry's Museum" magazine in the July and August of 1869, "An Old-Fashioned Girl" is a novel by Louisa May Alcott that revolves around Polly Milton, an old-fashioned and outmoded young girl with rural manners. One day, she goes to visit her affluent... Read Full Overview