An Old Fashioned Girl

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Little Women may be her best-known work, but the unlikely friendship between Polly and Fanny in An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott is a personal favorite. I first discovered it tucked in between A Little Prince and the aforementioned Little Women on the shelf at the library, an ancient illustrated edition with fragile yellow pages.rnrnPolly is a 19th-century country girl who travels to Boston to visit her friend Fanny, whose father has worked tirelessly to acquire the financial fortune that she, her younger siblings Tom and Maude, and her mother squander without a thought. Polly is uncomfortable surrounded by such wealth, and often can’t understand why a group of people who seem to have everything continue to be so unhappy with each other. what the teenager – later, the young woman – fails to recognize is the balming effect that her simple nature and goodwill have on her friend’s family.rnrnSeeing as how my family is similarly large, rambunctious and less-than-wealthy, it’s not surprising that I sympathized with Polly and her “countrified ways.” Polly is no goody two-shoes; as the book progresses through the girls’ older years, we find that Polly too is tempted by luxury, and cannot always stave off her desire for fun with her motto of hard work; her weakness only makes her more believable. It’s a simple, sweet story that, no matter how many times I read it, gives me one of those delightful warm, fuzzy feelings inside.

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F 813 Alc o

Publisher

Jakarta : Orange Books., 2010

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436 hal. ; 20,5 cm

Language

Indonesia

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978-602-8851-00-8

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813

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Novel

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