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1) Little women
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IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth--as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.
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Louisa May Alcott, more famously known for her „Little Women" series, takes a familiar nursery rhyme and creates a whole novel out of it in one of her last books „Jack and Jill: A Village Story". The story follows the lives of two 13-year-old neighbors, Jack and Jill, in the fictional Harmony Village. They go sledding on the first day of the season whereupon their adventurous natures and competitiveness get the better of them. After sledding down...
3) Good Wives
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The sequel to Little Women sees the March sisters grow up and experience great love and tragedy in their lives It is three years since we last met the inimitable March sisters and much has changed since we left them as little women. Meg, the eldest and most sensible of the sisters, is preparing to marry Mr. Brooke. She no longer works as a governess, instead happily looking after her young twins, Demi and Daisy. Jo, as ever the life of any gathering,...
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Venture to a world of fairies and flowers in this nineteenth-century collection of stories and poems from the beloved author of Little Women. At the tender age of sixteen, Louisa May Alcott's imagination was already in full bloom. From tales she told her neighbor, Ellen, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, she wove together stories and songs about fairies, elves, talking flowers, and animals. With innocence and whimsy, Alcott revealed the shadowy kingdom...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. From the beloved writer of Little Women comes this enchanting collection of Christmas stories. Louisa May Alcott crafts classic tales of how the holidays were spent in nineteenth-century America. Sharing these stories with loved ones will be a welcome addition to your holiday celebrations.
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Originally written for the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a family friend, Louisa May Alcott charms us with the daily events in her fantasy world of flora and fauna. By using the magical fairies as actors in nature's play, Alcott creates delightful morality plays, allowing children to easily learn the lessons of right from wrong. Stories include "The Frost King, or, The Power of Love", "Little Bud", "Annie's Dream", "Eva's Visit to Fairyland" "Lilly...
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Written as a bedtime story for her niece and part of Louisa May Alcott's Lulu Library. A Christmas Dream is the tale of a privileged little girl and a fantastic dream of Christmas teaching the value of giving to those in need. Written by Louisa May Alcott, famous for the "Little Women" Trilogy.
Narrated by Michael Ward
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Known for her beloved children's classics, Louisa May Alcott's true zeal was for writing sensational literature, which she chose to have published anonymously or under a pseudonym. Her favorite of these works was A Modern Mephistopheles. This chilling tale of greed, lust, and deception opens on a midwinter night when Felix Canaris, a despairing writer about to take his own life, is saved by a knock at the door. The mysterious visitor, a Jasper Helwyze,...
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These stories for children range from moral fables to fantasy stories and fairy tales. Louisa May Alcott created them for her young niece, Louisa, who was named after the author but nicknamed Lulu. Brimming with whimsy and wisdom, the first collection was an enormous success, inspiring two more volumes.
11) Mujercitas
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Mujercitas de Louisa May Alcott es un emotivo relato muy femenino con personajes y situaciones memorables. Enamoramientos, aspiraciones intelectuales, complicaciones, vicisitudes en la vida de las jovencitas. La escritora utiliza una fina descripción de caracteres, que muestra el paso de la niñez a la juventud, pone énfasis en el espíritu de la libertad individual, algo no usual para la época. Las March demuestran sus aptitudes sociales tocando...
12) Moods
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Originally published in 1864, "Moods" was the first book produced by Louisa May Alcott under her real name and pre-dated her hugely popular novel "Little Women". Written for a noticeably more mature audience then her most famous works, "Moods" revolves around the intersecting lives of an abolitionist spinster and a fallen Cuban beauty. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous for writing the...
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This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in Civil War–era America, as well as its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys.
14) Short Stories
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Poignant collection of 5 stories - based in part on the author's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War - includes "A Night," a moving account of her encounter with a dying soldier; "My Contraband," a gripping tale of vengeance involving a Civil War nurse, her Confederate patient and his former slave; plus 3 other titles.
15) Under the Lilacs
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"Under the Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
16) Nelly's Hospital
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Nelly's Hospital (1865) is a short story by Louisa May Alcott, written during or shortly after the American Civil War. Nelly, a small soul, starts an hospital for little creatures and animals, inspired by the happenings on the war front, and wants to do some good.
17) Debby's Debut
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Debby's Debut, written in 1863, is a delightful story that smells of the sea and summer, of joy and youthful innocence, of love, tenacity and courage to claim one's ideas, in which the typical themes of Alcott's production--the construction of female identity, the dignity of work, the importance of honesty and always remaining faithful to themselves, the safeguarding of the good values that modern society risks forgetting--find a lively, ironic and...
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2023
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Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men". Little Men tells the story of Jo Bhaer and the children at Plumfield Estate School.
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In "A Country Christmas", Louisa May Alcott tells the story of Sophie, a debutante from the city who travels to rural Vermont to spend Christmas with her cousins Saul and Ruth. Though apprehensive at first, Sophie learns that the charms of celebrating Christmas in the country are many.
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