An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa M. Alcott

[ailbhe]

I feel battered. That book was over 300 pages long and every blessed one of those pages had a moral on it. In big friendly letters, underlined. Then the author picked the book up and beat the moral into me with it. Jeepers.

It was like Pollyanna, only longer. And with fewer invalids.

Comments

[taimatsu]

Mmm, yes. My copy actually has a picture in the front of Polly being all forbearing at Jack; at least, that's what it looks like.

[ailbhe]

They're all the same morals as in Little Women and Good Wives, really, but they are far more thickly spread. Very indigestible.

My library has ordered Little Men for me. I have Jo's Boys but don't want to read them out of order.

[taimatsu]

They're all the same morals as in Little Women and Good Wives, really, but they are far more thickly spread.

Yes, and Little Women has at least a sprinkling of humour, which An Old-Fashioned Girl is rather lacking in.

[ailbhe]

I don't remember ANY humour in AO-FG. Except possibly the opening chapter.

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

Now try What Katy Did for the full banquet. Think of it as a chocolate-coated moral soufflé as dessert.