Little Women

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Short stories by the author of "Little Women", including: KITTY'S CLASS DAY, AUNT KIPP,
PSYCHE'S ART, A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS, ON PICKET DUTY, THE BARON'S GLOVES,
MY RED CAP, and WHAT THE BELLS SAW AND SAID. According to Wikipedia: "Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters."

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Bio of Louisa May Alcott

1832 AD - 1888 AD), Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women (1868). She was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May, and though of New England parentage and residence, was born in Germantown, now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She began work at an early age as an occasional teacher, seamstress, governess, and writer - her first book was Flower Fables (1854), tales originally written for Ellen Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1860 she began writing for the Atlantic Monthly, and she was nurse in the Union Hospital at Georgetown, D.C., for six weeks in 1862-1863. Her letters home, revised and published in the Commonwealth and collected as Hospital Sketches (1863, republished with additions in 1869), displayed keen power of observation and record with a healthy dose of the humor of retrospection, and garnered her the first critical recognition. Despite its uncertainty of method and of touch, Moods, a novel (1864), also showed considerable promise. Her overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), in which, with unfailing humour, freshness and realism, she put into story form many of the sayings and doings of herself and sisters. Little Men (1871) similarly treated the character and ways of her nephews who lived with her at Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, in which Alcott's industry had now established her parents and other members of the Alcott family. Jo's Boys (1886) completed the "March Family Saga." Most of her later volumes, An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag (6 vols., 1871-1879), Rose in Bloom (1876), and others, followed in the line of Little Women, of which the author's large and loyal public never wearied.

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B&R Samizdat Express

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906.65 KB

Number of Pages

480

eBook ISBN

9781102004493