Louisa: 1139 books

A 14-year-old country girl, Polly Milton, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor and their urbanized, fashionable lifestyles, expensive clothes and other habits she has never been exposed to. Fanny's friends reject...

To and fro, like a wild creature in its cage, paced that handsome woman, with bent head, locked hands, and restless steps. Some mental storm, swift and sudden as a tempest of the tropics, had swept over her and left its marks behind. As if in anger at the beauty now proved powerless, all ornaments...

Take part in the plays written and performed by two of the Marsh girls in the Little Women books. This 1893 volume—introduced by Meg—includes “Norna; Or, the Witch's Curse," “The Captive of Castile; Or, the Moorish Maiden's Vow,” "The Greek Slave," "Ion," "Bianca: An  Operatic Tragedy," and...

Published in 1875, this novel tells the story of a sickly orphan girl, Rose Campbell, who is sent to live with her wealthy maiden aunts in Boston.  There, under the tutelage of her guardian, Uncle Alec, she regains her health and happiness by strict regimen of fresh air and a connection with her populous new family.

We can do nothing about it except show our displeasure in some proper manner, said Portia, in her most dignified tone. "I should like to cut them all dead for a year to come; and I'm not sure that I won't!" cried Pauline, fiercely. "We ought to make it impossible for such a thing to...

The author of a delightful series of stories and novels for children, Mary Molesworth was a longtime favorite of younger readers in the late nineteenth century. The Palace in the Garden features a charming group of curious boys and girls exploring a lush country idyll -- and the mischief and mishaps that they fall into.

Reading on Location is a country-by-country guide to the regions and cities made famous by both well-known and cult books. From the quintessential English city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's "Persuasion" to the South India of Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" and the Amazon of Mario Vargas...

The blooms of a colonial New Hampshire town inspired this heartwarming 1878 children’s novel. A tea-party-crashing dog introduces two girls to Ben Brown, a boy on the run from the circus. The friends help Ben find home, family, and a happy ending, but not before misunderstanding, adventure, and tragedy strike.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: A boy sat on a door-step in a despondent attitude, with his eyes fixed on a pair of very shabby shoes, and his elbows resting on his knees, as if to hide the big patches there. But it was not the fact that...

Jo March, the tomboy heroine of Little Women, has grown up! She returns in this beloved sequel as a young woman with a family of her own. Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer, open their hearts (and their home) to educate and care for a handful of rowdy yet well-meaning youngsters. Plumfield, the school...

When Rose Campbell, a shy orphan, arrives at "The Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boisterous male cousins, she is quite overwhelmed. How could such a delicate young lady, used to the quiet hallways of a girls' boarding school, exist in such a spirited home? It is the arrival...

Being a goth in Eagle Point isn’t easy. The whispers and surreptitious glances are one thing, but they’re nothing compared to the growing fear Vanessa has of living her life in a small town when she longs to be a well-known horror novelist.   One night while she’s working late for her part-time...