{"product_id":"9781458708786","title":"The Diary of a Goose Girl","description":"Kate Douglas Wiggin is best known for \u003ci\u003eRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm\u003c\/i\u003e. A popular author of children's books, also opened the first free kindergarten in California -- the Silver Street Free Kindergarten, and worked there till the late 1880s.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Diary of a Goose Girl\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a young woman who tires of civilization, and moves to a small village in England \"in search of the strenuous life, and eager to wait, rather than to be waited upon.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am very tired of people,\" she wrote, \"and want to rest myself by living a while with things.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I rely upon you to keep an honorable distance yourselves, and not to divulge my place of retreat to others, especially to -- you know whom! Do not pursue me. I will never be taken alive!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer story of her life on a farm, keeping hens, Belgian hares, and especially geese, and her portraits of those she abides with form the basis of a charming tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ReadHowYouWant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124521058544,"sku":"9781458708786","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781458708786_p0.jpg?v=1763866569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781458708786","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}