Wide Wide World
Warner, Susan. New York, Hurst and Co. no publishing date. Small book 6 1/8 x 4. thick book over 900 pages. Volume 1 and volume 2 combined. Boards are dinged and bumped on edges and spine, discolored and stained. Pages are yellowed. Susan Bogert Warner's first and most popular novel based on her own girlhood in America, in which her father lost his money and her life changed from comfort and affluence with her parents to poverty under the unsympathetic care of an aunt. The "Wide Wide World" was second only to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as the most popular American novel of the 19th century. In the first two years it went through 13 editions and sold over 500,000 copies in the US alone. Media shipping 3.00
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