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Rose O' the River

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Book Overview: 

Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from Boston, tells her that her love is ruining Stephen's life. A cute coming-of-age novel.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Above the fall, covering the placid surface of the river, thousands of logs lay quietly “in boom” until the “turning out” process, on the last day of the drive, should release them and give them their chance of display, their brief moment of notoriety, their opportunity of interesting, amusing, exciting, and exasperating the onlookers by their antics.

Heaps of logs had been cast up on the rocks below the dam, where they lay in hopeless confusion, adding nothing, however,[Pg 30] to the problem of the moment, for they too bided their time. If they had possessed wisdom, discretion, and caution, they might have slipped gracefully over the falls and, steering clear of the hidden ledges (about which it would seem they must have heard whispers from the old pine trees along the river), have kept a straight course and reached their destination without costing the Edgewood Lumber Company a small fortune. Or, if they had inclined toward a jolly and a. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This was a nice little story about a country girl who thinks she might want more than the country -- and her fiance -- offers. I like this sort of thing, from this time period, though the author used rather too much "dialect" in her characters' conversation for my taste. I know it was a convention o

This book was written in the 1800’s so everything makes sense. The pacing sucks, characters have no depth or dimension, sexist, racist, and pretty boring in general. The best part of this book is its vintage and that’s exciting for anyone who enjoys classics. There’s something to be enjoyed from rea

You never know what to expect from an old forgotten book. Let me tell you that what I got was an adorable story that I wish was a hundred pages longer.

Its the story of Rose and her long languished love Stephen. He has loved her forever and in her girlish behavior always turned him down for silly rea

Fairly short. Readable if one has nothing better to do, but there was too much that didn't interest me about the moving of the logs down the stream, and I didn't care that much for Rose's grandparents' querulous ways.
Rose is not quite twenty, and is the beauty of the region. She doesn't think too de

This is such a charming little old-fashioned romance. Rose Wiley, the prettiest girl in her little Maine village, seems on the way to marriage and happiness with a fine young man, Stephen Waterman, but she is not quite contented. Rose is a sweet girl, but she has a few things to learn about life—she

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