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Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)

Louisa May Alcott

Start date: August 1, 2017

Finish date: August 31, 2017

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Feb 18, 2016 Yair Ben-Zvi rated it liked it · review of another edition

While admittedly a very dated text (I was honestly amazed at the racial and gender mores that Alcott described so lucidly) there is still much to appreciate. However, and in the interest of full disclosure, I probably would not have read this on my own (it's part of a Trade Literature class I'm currently a part of)but I'm glad that I did; the prose is fluid and even fecund in its descriptive powers, and while it could certainly be construed as saccharine or treacle, I feel that unlike a lot of p ...more

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Aug 22, 2013 ULa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Suka sekali buku ini. Kisah anak lelaki yang bersemangat dengan gadis manis ditengahnya. Akhirnya Rose akan menikah dengan siapa ya?

Kapan nih buku sekuelnya terbit? Atau gak bakal terbit?

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