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An Old-Fashioned Girl (Evergreen Classics)
Louisa May Alcott

Dover Publications, 2007

Alcott, beloved author of Little Women and other magnificent children's classics, brings to life the tale of Polly Milton, a young girl who leaves her simple country life to stay at the home of her wealthy city cousins. But can plain Polly enjoy sophisticated city life without changing? This unforgettable story about being true to yourself continues to inspire.

Eight Cousins (EasyRead Edition)

37 reviews
Louisa May Alcott

ReadHowYouWant, 2007

My Favorite Alcott
It's neck and neck with LITTLE WOMEN and EIGHT COUSINS on which is my favorite, but as a child I would read COUSINS rather than LW because the whole John Brooke and Meg plot bored me to tears. I loved accompanying Rose as she adjusted to her new guardian, her Uncle Alec, who makes the sickly girl well with common sense: exercise, fresh air, and new experiences, like her seven male cousins, ...

The Portable Louisa May Alcott (Viking Portable Library)
Louisa May Alcott

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000

Although the publication of Little Women in 1868 earned Louisa May Alcott tremendous popularity, for a long time she was thought of as a writer of children's stories and considered--at best--a minor figure in the American literary canon. Now, at the end of the twentieth century, Alcott's vast body of work is being celebrated alongside the greatest American writers, and this collection shows why. The Portable Louisa May Alcott samples the ...

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

6 reviews
John Matteson

W. W. Norton, 2007

excellent biography!
The author manages to do justice to both his subjects, Louisa May Alcott and her father. He also creates an excellent picture of the time and explains the transcendtalist movement. Besides L.M. Alcott and B. Alcott one learns a lot about Emerson, Thoreau, Elizabeth Peabody and other luminaries of the time. The book is fact driven, there are often long quotations from original material and it is ...

Rose in Bloom

22 reviews
Louisa May Alcott

IndyPublish, 2002

It Only Gets Better
If Eight Couisins was great, Rose In Bloom is classic! I left the child-hood friends in great anticipation of meeting them again as adults. At the same time, however, I felt an ominous sense of foreboding. . . Would Charlie and Mac ruin their friendship in vieing for their sweet cousin's hand? I could not imagine Mac striving with anyone over anything. So . . . what then? Would the romantic and ...

Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers Of Louisa May Alcott

4 reviews
Louisa May Alcott

Harper Perennial, 1997

Characters hardly "Little Women"
In this collection of four short stories, Louisa May Alcott reveals herself as a racy, infinately readable author. Each story features strong women, with sharp tongues and sharper wits. Every plot has an unexpected twist, and a decidedly dark touch of irony. If you couldn't read Little Women because of its flowery prose, here is a second chance to aquaint yourself with an incredible American ...

Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

3 reviews
Louisa May Alcott

Dover Publications, 1996

A solid collection of Alcott's stories
The Dover Thrift Edition of "Short Stories" by Louisa May Alcott contains 5 pieces: "Obtaining Supplies," "A Night," "My Contraband," "Happy Women," and "How I Went Out to Service." The book includes a brief introductory note on the life and career of Alcott. The first two stories are from Alcott's "Hospital Sketches"; together with the third story, they deal with protagonists who work as nurses ...

Little Men Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (EasyRead Edition)

46 reviews
Louisa May Alcott

ReadHowYouWant, 2007

My favorite Alcott novel...
Mention the name Louisa May Alcott, and most people will instantly think of "Little Women." But in my mind, the less often discussed "Little Men" is just as great, if not better. The story picks up shortly after the conclusion of "Little Women," with Jo and Frederick Bhaer running a school at Plumfield. Along with their own little Rob and Teddy, they are busy raising the neglected children of ...

Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys (Library of ...

6 reviews
Louisa May Alcott

Library of America, 2005

A World-Beating Trilogy of Human Kindness
As I re-read these delightful pages, I found myself comparing Little Women to Pride and Prejudice, that outstanding work that captures human psychology so well. The comparison made me see new depths in Little Women that convince me that Little Women is by far the stronger work. But my biggest reaction was how modern the views in the book are. Women should have education, access to ...

Louisa May Alcott: Quilts of Her Life, He Work, Her Heart
Terry Clothier Thompson

Kansas City Star Books, 2008

Authored by quilt historian Terry Clothier Thompson, this book looks at the Civil War through the eyes of Louisa May Alcott. Louisa is best known for writing children's stories and Little Women , but she was also very involved with the anti-slavery movement, rights for women, and served as a Civil War nurse. The heart of the book is the Louisa quilt. In this quilt there are nine cameo blocks that tell the story of Louisa and her family's ...

Louisa May Alcott (Childhood of Famous Americans Series.)

1 review
Beatrice Gormley

Aladdin, 1999

A pleasure to read, and informative too!
My nine year old daughter virtually consumed this biography. This is the 3rd book she has read in this series, and she has asked for more. I have read them along with her--they are appropriate for 8-10 year olds, interesting, accessible, but never condescending or preachy. Based on my knowledge of the subjects, they are only marginally fictionalized. In a world of pop singers and barely ...

Little Women, By Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott

Portland House, 1987

Civil War Hospital Sketches (Dover Evergreen Classics)

1 review
Louisa May Alcott

Dover Publications, 2006

Civil War Hospital Sketches
This book was short and gave some insight, but was a little disappointing since I had just finished reading Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes. Both Louisa May Alcott and Hannah Ropes were assigned to the same hospital. Hannah Ropes' book is more in depth with the day-to-day details and her feelings than Hospital Sketches. Louisa May Alcott's book makes you think it was ...

Little Women
Louisa, Mae Alcott

NuVision Publications, 2007

Little Women is the story of The Marches, a family used to hard toil and suffering. Although Father March is away with the Union armies, the sisters Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth keep in high spirits with their mother, affectionately named Marmee. Their friendly gift of a Christmas holiday breakfast to a neighbouring family is an act of generosity rewarded with wealthy Mr. Laurence's gift of a surprise Christmas feast. However, despite their efforts to ...

The Louisa May Alcott Cookbook

2 reviews
Gretchen Anderson

Little Brown & Co (Juv), 1985

Fun Childhood recipes
I have had this since it was first published and I have enjoyed it very much over the years. My father and I have been making the gingerbread recipe since I was young and just made it again last week (I often add chocolate chips to make it more of a treat). My daughter will soon be old enough to help me with these recipies and I look forward to sharing them with her. I highly reccomend this as ...

The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

2 reviews
Louisa May Alcott

University of Georgia Press, 1997

Almost Every Page Held Some New Amazement
The eloquent Miss Alcott, creator of Little Women, of course, was not only an interesting diarist, she was one capable of leaving open a portal into her era, her mind, her remarkable human spirit. Her unrehearsed honesty year after year reflects the values of her age moreso than nearly anything else I've read, and the beauty of her entries and thoughts reinforces the fact that our language today ...

The Best of Louisa May Alcott: A Charming Illustrated Collection of Little Women, Little Men, and 24 Short ...
Louisa May Alcott

Gramercy, 1993

“A splendid edition–the first contemporary collection of Louisa May Alcott’s novels and stories; one that includes the art of the great nineteenth-century illustrator Frank T. Merrill.” —Madelon Bedell, author of The Alcotts: Biography of a Family Louisa May Alcott was a writer who liked to be in intimate touch with the reader. There is a confidential immediacy to her style, often punctuated with sly stabs of ...

Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds

4 reviews
Kit Bakke

David R Godine, 2007

MARVELOUS! Much better than I expected!
What is it about those old Concord folks that causes us to revisit them and put them in fictionalized settings? First it was "Mr. Emerson's Wife" (by Amy Belding Brown), and now "Miss Alcott's E-mail." I admit that after hearing about this new title, I just shook my head and figured its premise would be silly before I even held the book in my hands. I'm happy to report that I was wrong, wrong, ...

Little Women (Signet Classics)

68 reviews
Louisa May Alcott

Signet Classics, 2004

The Sticking Together Sisters
Little Women is a story about four sisters who live with their mother. I thought it was a great story because it is really easy to figure out what they are doing in a jiff. The best part of this book is that it shows the characters have feelings and emotions that are throughtout the whole story. The story explains to me what it was like to live back in the older days. Yet to me this book seems ...

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