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The Wide, Wide World

Susan Warner

Book Overview: 

How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react when she learns that the aunt with whom she was sent to live doesn’t really care about her? Will she be able to make real friendships with people outside her family? Would she be able to take her belief in God as a comfort? If you want to find answers to all these questions, read the enjoyable novel The Wide, Wide World. There, you will see how the amazing Ellen Montgomery reacts to all those things, and many, many more.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Ellen was struck dumb. The good-natured Dutchman had taken a fancy to the little pale-faced, sad-looking stranger, and really felt very kindly disposed towards her; but she neither knew nor at that moment cared about that. She stood motionless, utterly astounded at this unheard-of proposal, and not a little indignant; but when, with a good-natured smile upon his round face, he came near to claim the kiss he no doubt thought himself sure of, Ellen shot from him like an arrow from a bow. She rushed to the house, and bursting open the door, stood with flushed face and sparkling eyes in the presence of her astonished aunt.

"What in the world is the matter?" exclaimed that lady.[Pg 118]

"He wanted to kiss me!" said Ellen, scarce knowing whom she was talking to, and crimsoning more and more.

"Who wanted to kiss you?"

"That man out there."

"What man?"

"That man that drives the oxen."

"What, Mr. Van Brunt?" And El. . . Read More

Community Reviews

i have such a complicated response to this book; it is so very long and so very limited to the narrator's spiritual struggle (and a struggle that is not familiar to, i think, contemporary readers) but it is also so very full of possibilities and the author's intelligence. the reader can see, in the

This is DREADFULLY preachy, and I can't believe Jo March ever really liked it and cried over it. Especially at 15 or 16 years old. It's also OVERLY tragical (poor Ellen gets separated from everyone and everything she cares about multiple times, more than once through death). And yet there are a few

I only read half of this book.

If I had to read more of it I may not be alive today.

When I began this book I was unimpressed. However, sweet little Ellen Montgomery continued to grow on me. The variety of characters that Ellen interacts with is fantastic and there are many characters and scenes to love. This novel is lengthy, but if you hold out, it is also packed with emotion. The

This book is a difficult one to review. I loved the writing in this book. I also liked many parts of the story and characters but overall the tone of the book is rather religious and I didn't agree with the messages the book sent about women's roles and what is necessary to be considered a "good" Ch

This book has been on my reading list since the very first time I read Little Women and strong Jo March was reading it and it evoked so much emotion from her. And, to be honest, I didn’t see why as I read through the first part of this story. I kept on reading it only because it was mentioned in one

I read this book first as a child when I found it in a jumble sale and recognised it as the book Jo March read weeping in Little Women. As a child I loved it for the story of Ellen coping when sent away from her mother to live with her unkind Aunt Fortune. As an adult, I enjoyed it for the window it

Lovely book

So glad to have read this mild and well-written book. The ending,however, was abrupt. I would have liked a more detailed ending. Otherwise, I loved it.

This book is a must read for a young Christian girl. I read it when I was 14 and then again when I was 16. A beautiful, pastoral story with Scriptural truths that are inspiring. Though it is a long story and somewhat sad at times, it truly is wonderful. I try not to be made at the author, but the tr

Feminist? #okaaaay. This book is the golden standard of the sentimental domestic, in which a chaste girl is taught to listen to everyone else about who should she be, and that she should especially trust in the wisdom of males---especially the Father Himself. A pinnacle of genre fiction and patriarc

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