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This illustration from the 1884 Frederick Warne & Co. "Star Series" depicts Ellen and Nancy at the brook. Below the illustration includes a reference to page 117. The darker colors of Nancy's clothing compared to Ellen's highlights the contrast between the characters throughout the book.

This blank page is from the 1884 Frederick Warne & Co "Star Series" reprint.

This illustration, from the 1884 Frederick Warne & Co. "Star Series" Reprint, depicts Ellen alone in the ox cart . This image portrays a cold winter day with the ground and trees covered in snow around Ellen highlighting her fear.

This blank, which appears on page 89A, proceeds the Table of Contents of the 1884 Frederick Warne & Co. "Star Series" Reprint.

Reviewer admires the novel's exemplary religious lessons; recommends the book to Christian families

A clean, edited reading copy of George P. Putnam's first edition of The Wide, Wide World.

Reviewer discusses the growth of literature for "juveniles" and its generic potential; praises Warner's contributions to the field

Reviewer investigates the current state of the novel as compared with its eighteenth-century forebears; considers contemporary tendencies toward moral argumentation; expresses mixed feelings about the genre's evolution; discusses The Wide, Wide World, Queechy, and Dollars and Cents as positive examples of a new class of American novel, "having a character of their own--humane, religious, piquant, natural, national"

Reviewer praises The Wide, Wide World for its verisimilitude and its heroine's religious journey; appreciates the novel's ending

Reviewer compliments The Wide, Wide World for standing out among the "now common class of religious novels"; offers an excerpt illustrating the novel's "agreeable style"; concludes with a complaint about the author's "diffuseness" (novel mistakenly attributed to "Emily" Wetherell)