Easton Press Louisa May Alcott books:
Little Women - 1976
Little Men - 1988
Jo's Boys
Franklin Library Louisa May Alcott books:
Little Women - World's Best Loved Books - 1980
Little Women - 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature - 1980
Author Louisa May Alcott biography
Louisa May Alcott (1832-88), was an American author, born in Germantown,
Pa. Alcott was raised in Boston, Mass., and was tutored by the American
writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. While serving as a
nurse during the Civil War Louisa May Alcott wrote letters to her
family which were later published as Hospital Sketches (1854). Her most
famous works, Little Women (1868), an autobiographical novel of Louisa
May Alcott's childhood, and its sequel, Little Men (1871), soon came to
be regarded as children's classics. The deep sense of family loyalty and
intimacy contained in these works assures her prominent position among
authors of children's novels.
Little Women
Generations
of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the
March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel,
Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically
frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their
devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England
during the Civil War.
It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women
on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and
abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as
Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her
sisters with "woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting
as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more
money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and
far from being the "girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores
such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict
between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of
cultures between Europe and America.
Little Men
With
two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the
informal school at Plumfield, Jo March now Jo Bhaer couldn't be
happier. But despite the warm and affectionate help of the whole March
family, boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and there are plenty
of troubles and adventures in store.
Jo's Boys
Beginning
ten years after Little Men, Jo’s Boys revisits Plumfield, the New
England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor
Bhaer. Jo remains at the center of the tale, surrounded by her
boys including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician
Nat as they experience shipwreck and storm, disappointment and even
murder.
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