The Baron's Gloves
by Louisa May Alcott
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Two rather young women, Amy and Helen, traveling with an older uncle, are doing the "tour" of Europe, and are supposedly soaking up education but secretly yearning for adventures and romance. At this wish for adventure, a pair of gloves suddenly drops beside them from a balcony above their hotel room near Coblentz. Ah, whose gloves? The two young men who enter the lives of these ladies are rich and eligible adventurers traveling through Europe, and agree to play a prank on the young women by show more becoming aides to their uncle.. show less
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Meh...didn't really love it. Definitely fanciful Victorian romantic silliness. So, I suppose it's a great "be cozy and chill" sort of a read---but not a lot of depth. Lots of flowery and dramatic "thous" and "shalls". I'll save it because it's Alcott, but not sure I'll read it again this decade.
Uno dei tanti racconti che la Alcott inviava alle riviste per sbarcare il lunario prima del successo di Piccole donne e che si è rivelato esattamente quello che prometteva di essere: un piacevole divertissement senza alcuna pretesa letteraria.
E' la storia di due cugine in viaggio per l'Europa, tra piccole avventure e romantiche facezie; una commediola sentimentale che però ha il merito di ironizzare sul genere a cui appartiene, infondendo ritmo e verve ad una vicenda altrimenti frivola. Contribuisce allo scopo anche la scrittura vivace e brillante (d'altronde parliamo pur sempre di una grande autrice).
Poco altro da dire, la Alcott riesce a confezionare un raccontino più che dignitoso anche quando scrive prodotti in serie.
E' la storia di due cugine in viaggio per l'Europa, tra piccole avventure e romantiche facezie; una commediola sentimentale che però ha il merito di ironizzare sul genere a cui appartiene, infondendo ritmo e verve ad una vicenda altrimenti frivola. Contribuisce allo scopo anche la scrittura vivace e brillante (d'altronde parliamo pur sempre di una grande autrice).
Poco altro da dire, la Alcott riesce a confezionare un raccontino più che dignitoso anche quando scrive prodotti in serie.
Feb 29, 2024Italian
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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
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- Canonical title*
- I Guanti del Barone o La storia di Amy
- Original title
- The Baron's Gloves
- Alternate titles*
- Amy's Romance
- Original publication date
- 1868
- People/Characters*
- Amy; Helen; Maggiore Erskine; Karl Hoffmann; Casimer Teblinski
- Important places*
- Germany; Vevey, Svizzera; Svizzera
- First words*
- "Che lungo sospiro! Sei stanca, Amy?"
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Amy, la nostra ricerca si è conclusa. Tu puoi tenerti i guanti; io ho il barone."
- Original language*
- Inglese
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