Eight Cousins — Louisa May Alcott

Eight Cousins This is the story of Rose Campbell an orphan and lonely girl who has to learn to live with her great aunts The aunts have different ideas about how to raise her Her uncle Alec a doctor becomes her protector and looks after Rose as if she is his daughter She also has seven male cousins who all have different kinds of characters They all love Rose Once a shy sickly unhappy child blossoms into a caring happy healthy girl

The Author is quite aware of the defects of this little story many of which were unavoidable as it first appeared serially But as Uncle Alec s experiment was intended to amuse the young folks rather than suggest educational improvements for the consideration of the elders she trusts that these shortcomings will be overlooked by the friends of the Eight Cousins and she will try to make amends in a second volume which shall attempt to show The Rose in Bloom

I could stand the aunts but there are dozens of cousins dreadful boys all of them and I detest boys Some of them came to see me last Wednesday but I was lying down and when auntie came to call me I went under the quilt and pretended to be asleep I shall have to see them some time but I do dread it so And Rose gave a shudder for having lived alone with her invalid father she knew nothing of boys and considered them a species of wild animal Oh I guess you ll like em I ve seen em flying round when they come over from the Point sometimes in their boats and sometimes on horseback If you like boats and horses you ll enjoy yourself first rate Tanıtım Bülteninden