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Eight Cousins

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This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

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ISBN9789388321877
PublisherLector House
Publication Date07/08/19
Pages206

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  • annwithoutane
    annwithoutane

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    Always a joy, if one remembers what time and place this book was written and set in, and how thus, it is pretty progressive in comparison. 1875 in Boston was a much different time and place then where I am reading this book today in 2024. And yet I think there are some morals in this story still relevant to this day. How kindness and a steadfast hold onto one's beliefs does more to convince others of them than grand speeches. How to value 'our elders' without doing so blindly and how to keep an open mind. Do I believe that sometimes Dr. Alec overdoes his shielding Rose from "the frivolities of fashion and such"? Yes. But it is shown in this book nicely how he does so because he doesn't know better. He becomes Rose's guardian when she is already 13, after having close to no experience in raising a child. And yet I believe his approach to parenting is more reasonable than some examples I have witnessed both in real life and on the internet. All in all I think this book would be a great one to teach critical reading with. It uses some language that we, nowadays, understand to be racist, but never so in a way that is ill-intentioned. And it shows some classicism in the characters minds and how it fits with or might have emerged from their world view. And it does so without excusing it away.

    Aug 7, 2025

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