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Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, written in 1850 (the first American best-seller and published under pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell), is the story of Ellen Montgomery who doubts that God will really take care of her as she is taken to her hard-working aunt while her father takes her dying mother to Europe.

Thanks to several friends who help, teach, and guide her along the way, Ellen eventually learns to trust in God in everything, and is able to endure trials, many of them her aunt's making.

Originally published in a two-part edition, it is well over five hundred pages all together. It takes Ellen from childhood to Christian womanhood and is definitely worth the read. HERE is a link to a free edition, complete with the original pictures.

I hope you'll enjoy this book as much as I did.

'Til next time,
Heather