You're Only Young Once

""You're Only Young Once"" is a novel written by Margaret Widdemer. The story centers around a young girl named Jane who is on the brink of adulthood. She is trying to find her place in the world and navigate the challenges that come with growing up. Jane is faced with a variety of obstacles, including family drama, romantic relationships, and societal expectations. Throughout the novel, she learns valuable lessons about love, loss, and the importance of staying true to oneself. The book provides an insightful look into the struggles and triumphs of adolescence, and is a relatable and engaging read for anyone who has ever felt lost or uncertain in their youth.1918. American author, novelist, poet, Widdemer shared the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for poetry (the second ever awarded) with Carl Sandburg. The book begins: You might have thought, if you didn�������t know, that there was an afternoon tea-party going on, but it wasn�������t: it was merely all the Goldsborough girls in one room. There were five of them, ranging all the way from Angela, who was twenty-three and looked so much like a doll that by the law of contraries you could be almost sure she had a great deal of common sense, to Isabella, who was fifteen and had large eyes and brown curls and dimples and had to be kept down. In between came Deborah, who was tall and lissom and cream-and-gold, Janetta, who was straight and dark and Indian-handsome, and Annice, small and dark and quiet and so much like a Sir Walter Scott engraving, at sixteen, that her sisters made her life a burden about it. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.