ISBN:
9781775452546
,
9781776518142
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (232 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Aunt Jane's Nieces
DDC:
306.8
Keywords:
Children's stories, American
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Young women ; Social life and customs ; Juvenile fiction
;
Cousins ; Juvenile fiction
;
Inheritance and succession ; Juvenile fiction
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Young women ; Social life and customs ; Fiction
;
Cousins ; Fiction
;
Inheritance and succession ; Fiction
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Inspired by Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this book, which Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum wrote under the pen name Edith Van Dyne, is much in the same vein as Alcott's cozy coming-of-age tale. The first in a series, the story of this novel follows three nieces who are summoned to their wealthy aunt's estate so she can decide to whom she will bequeath her sizable inheritance. Although the girls couldn't be more different personality-wise, a series of calamities brings them
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Chapter I - Beth Receives an Invitation; Chapter II - Mother and Daughter; Chapter III - Patsy; Chapter IV - Louise Makes a Discovery; Chapter V - Aunt Jane; Chapter VI - The Boy; Chapter VII - The First Warning; Chapter VIII - The Diplomat; Chapter IX - Cousins; Chapter X - The Man with the Bundle; Chapter XI - The Mad Gardener; Chapter XII - Uncle John Gets Acquainted; Chapter XIII - The Other Niece; Chapter XIV - Kenneth is Frightened; Chapter XV - Patsy Meets with an Accident; Chapter XVI - Good Results; Chapter XVII - Aunt Jane's Heiress; Chapter XVIII - Patricia Speaks Frankly
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter XIX - DuplicityChapter XX - In the Garden; Chapter XXI - Reading the Will; Chapter XXII - James Tells a Strange Story; Chapter XXIII - Patsy Adopts an Uncle; Chapter XXIV - Home Again; Chapter XXV - Uncle John Acts Queerly; Chapter XXVI - A Bunch of Keys; Chapter XXVII - Louise Makes a Discovery; Chapter XXVIII - Patsy Loses Her Job; Chapter XXIX - The Major Demands an Explanation;
Note:
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