Capitolo 1
An Old style Girl
of Louisa M. Alcott
Preface
As a preface is the only place where an author is able with convenience
you explain a purpose or you excuse him for defects, I venture me to benefit
me of the right to constitute an affirmation the benefit of mine
readers.
As the first part of "An Old style Girl" you/he/she was written in 1869,
the application for a succession, in to implore the small letters that have done
impossible refusal, the surrenders necessary to bring my heroin
audaciously sends of the you are or seven years in the future. The
national nature of the history ago this audacious procedure
possible; while the vivacious desires of my young readers will provision
all the deficiencies, and it neglects all the discrepancies.
This wish of explanation, I have trust, you raise those minds well you regulate,
who cannot conceive any so literary anarchy from the,
confusion of which they suffered when the same experiment was
tried in a first book.
The "Old style Girl" it is not understood as a perfect model, but as
a possible improvement on [the Page] the Girl of the Period that
it achingly seems ignorant or ashamed of the good person old ways
what they make woman really beautiful and honorable, and, through her,
makes house what owes be,-a happy place, where parents and
children, brothers and sisters learn to love and to know and they help one
another.
If the history of the childish experiences of Polly suggests a suggestion or
he/she insinuates a lesson, I will feel that, despite many obstacles, me
doesn't have completely neglected my duty toward the small men and
women for that it is a honor and a pleasure to write, since in
their self I have found my kinder patrons, kinder critics always,
warmer friends.
L. M. A.
Contained
Chapter 1. Polly Arrives
Chapter 2. New ways
Chapter 3. The Troubles of Polly
Chapter 4. Small Things
Chapter 5. It scrapes off
Chapter 6. Grandmother
Chapter 7. Good-from
Chapter 8. Six years Later
Chapter 9. Lessons
Chapter 10. Brothers and Nuns
Chapter 11. Needles and Languages
Chapter 12. Forbidden fruit