The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern ... and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
by Louisa May Alcott
On This Page
Description
Indulge Yourself with the best classics literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Table of Contents. List of Works by Genre and Title. List of Works in Alphabetical Order. List of Works in Chronological Order. Louisa May Alcott Biography. Fiction. Behind a Mask, or a Woman''s Power. Eight Cousins. Flower Fables. Hospital Sketches. Jack and Jill. Jo''s Boys. Little Men. Little Women. The Mysterious Key and What It Opened. show more An Old-Fashioned Girl. Pauline''s Passion and Punishment. Rose in Bloom. Under the Lilacs. A Story of Experience. Short Stories. The Abbot''s Ghost, or Maurice Treherne''s Temptation. Aunt Kipp. The Baron''s Gloves. The Brothers. A Country Christmas. The Cross on The Old Church Tower. The Death of John. Debby''s Debut. A Garland for Girls. The King of Clubs And The Queen of Hearts. Kitty''s Class Day. Marjorie''s Three Gifts. A Modern Cinderella or The Little Old Shoe. My Red Cap. Nelly''s Hospital. On Picket Duty. Psyche''s Art. A Story For Young America. What The Bells Saw And Said. Poetry. Our Little Ghost. show lessTags
Member Reviews
This is a collection of the many works by Louisa May Alcott. There were several short stories in the collection that I passed over (I wasn't interested in the truly juvenile stories, which is why I gave this four stars instead of five). However, the fact that it contains Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom and Jack and Jill made this a truly worthwhile read. I've always counted these books among my favorites since childhood and they don't disappoint as an adult. If you haven't read Little Women, you've missed out!
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
467+ Works 108,779 Members
Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1832. Two years later, she moved with her family to Boston and in 1840 to Concord, which was to remain her family home for the rest of her life. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a transcendentalist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott early realized that her show more father could not be counted on as sole support of his family, and so she sacrificed much of her own pleasure to earn money by sewing, teaching, and churning out potboilers. Her reputation was established with Hospital Sketches (1863), which was an account of her work as a volunteer nurse in Washington, D.C. Alcott's first works were written for children, including her best-known Little Women (1868--69) and Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871). Moods (1864), a "passionate conflict," was written for adults. Alcott's writing eventually became the family's main source of income. Throughout her life, Alcott continued to produce highly popular and idealistic literature for children. An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Eight Cousins (1875), Rose in Bloom (1876), Under the Lilacs (1878), and Jack and Jill (1881) enjoyed wide popularity. At the same time, her adult fiction, such as the autobiographical novel Work: A Story of Experience (1873) and A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), a story based on the Faust legend, shows her deeper concern with such social issues as education, prison reform, and women's suffrage. She realistically depicts the problems of adolescents and working women, the difficulties of relationships between men and women, and the values of the single woman's life. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 8
- Popularity
- 2,496,361
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- Czech, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 2
