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    <body><![CDATA[I have been wanting to read this book for years! Debby P. tried to find it for me and my sister actually had it, so while I've been visiting family the last couple of weeks, I read it. I was up and down while reading this book because I have watched the movie so many times that I expected to be read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40321016">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened upon this book while looking for Alcott's Little Men.  This short novel was very impressive since she wrote it when she was seventeen.  Without this information, I would have given it less stars and thought it was an immature attempt at mimicking Jane Austen.  Knowing that a teenager (who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62506997">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sigh. I wish I could give this a four or five star rating. I really do. Louisa May Alcott was a fantastic little woman, but this short novel was merely that- a short novel. And those do not always fill my literary hunger. <br/><br/>I do have to give Alcott credit. This novel was supposedly her fir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28574652">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this 4 stars only because it is Louisa May Alcotts' first novel, written when she was 17.  I find that fascinating.  It is the story of an Italian orphan raised by a wealthy family in the English countryside.  High English and proper morals make the read rather sterile, but still an interesti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59136263">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very sweet tale...apparently, Louisa May Alcott's first, written at 17. It reads like a fairy tale. The protagonists are impeccably perfect, and the enemy is diabolical. The crises are dramatic, the heroes heroic, and the suitors flagrantly in love. <br/><br/>Next time I read it I may count how ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56699965">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was Alcott’s first novel written when she was seventeen years old.  It was actually just published in the 1997 after the handwritten copy was found cataloged in the Harvard Library.  I give this book four stars because of her intent, although the manuscript didn’t necessarily feel like a fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38723740">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ (Wheeler Large Print (Feature Selection))]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the things I really liked about this book (the first novel Louis May Alcott wrote) was how many things were transparent.  Not that you could just guess what was happening, but character's feelings were often told up front.  Not a whole lot of suspense and guessing.  I do enjoy that sometimes,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64422978">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to read this book after enjoying the movie.  It was an easy, short read and an impressive work considering Alcott wrote it when she was just 17.  It is a chaste romance with characters who are well defined as good or evil.  I enjoyed the story of how the manuscript was found and also the h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71225079">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember really liking this book of Louisa May Alcott's because it was so different than the others.  If you've ever thought she had feminist leanings, this book is devoid of them.  It's quite different than the movie that was based on it as well.  The one factor that remains the same is the trust...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41898081">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a wonderful book. It is about a girl named Edith, who falls in love with a man named Sir Percy. She doesn't want to admit it, since he is so high in rank, and she is so low in rank... or is she? Wonderful plot, and a great twist at the end! This book is either my favorite or second fav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58601855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was Alcott's first novel, written when she was just 17. It was a simple story. It was alright. I thought there was too much crying and the heroine was a little too humble and modest to me. A real fluffy story written by a naive, romantic teenager. But a somewhat entertaining and quick read. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59834108">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first novel of a 17 year old girl reads like the first novel of a 17 year old girl. Sappy, empty, and overdone romance done in the worst of classical styles. It's a relief that she finally found her own style and her own story in Little Woman instead of continually copying the typical romance st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51107931">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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