When her father's ruin sends her mother abroad to die, young Ellen Montgomery is left to the mercy of a cold aunt on a remote farm, and then to a wider world of strangers. Slowly, through grief and hardship and unexpected kindness, she learns to bear what she cannot change, to love those who shelter her, and to find a home for her heart.
First published in 1850, The Wide, Wide World was one of the first American novels to sell in the hundreds of thousands - the book that helped invent the American domestic novel and shaped the sentimental fiction of a generation.
This Northlume Library edition presents the complete novel behind an original mixed-media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.