Eight Cousins

Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Co, 1935. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Reissue. No date on copyright page, circa 1940. Ink gift note on front endpaper, bookworm tracks on outer edge of text block, affects margin and not text, pages toned, minor loss from jacket corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean. 243 pp. A new edition of Louisa May Alcott's 1875 classic novel, Eight Cousins: Or, The Aunt-Hill. The story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly orphan who moves to live with her maiden great aunts, who are the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family, and her guardian, Uncle Alec. Under his unconventional parenting, she thrives and finds her place in her big family of seven boy cousins. Often described as "Little Women but with boys," Eight Cousins is another beloved and enduringly popular novel from Alcott, telling a domestic story with strong moral lessons, yet which is subtly subversive in encouraging young women to pursue their ambitions.