Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by John Everett Millais, Winslow Homer and Camille Pissarro. Rose comes home at twenty with her fortune, her guardian and seven cousins, and must decide what a young woman with money is actually for. Alcott opens by warning that there is no moral to the story and that Rose is not designed for a model girl, which is a fair notice from a writer thoroughly tired of being told what her heroines ought to want. Fifty-three plates by painters including Winslow Homer and John Everett Millais carry the story's moods through shepherdesses, green hills and drenched furze, a visual counterpart to Alcott's own account of growing up.