num_pages: 345
description: "Old-Fashioned Girl" a contrast and a moral. She presents to our view two young ladies of opposite "styles." One is fresh and the other isn't. The difference is about as great as that between the warbling of woodside birds and the jingle of one of Offenbach's tunes on a corner barrel-organ."-Book Notice from Punchinello Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
language: English
title: An Old-Fashioned Girl
titlecomplete: An Old-Fashioned Girl
characters: Fanny Shaw, Tom Shaw, Polly Milton, Arthur Sydney, Madam Shaw, Polly Milton, Tom Shaw, Fanny SHaw, Maud Shaw, Arthur Sidney, Madam Shaw, Maud Shaw
genres: Historical, Literature, Young Adult, Classics, Childrens, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 19865
places: Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc.