A Modern Cinderella or The Little Old Shoe And Other Stories

Louisa May Alcott's expansion and new interpretation of the timeless fairy tale.

First sentence: Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden-plot stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal elms stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revolution roll

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

1st World Library - Literary Society

Editions

86

Pages

136

ISBN

9781421818993

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