Louisa May Alcott | The Complete Works

COMPLETE MAJOR WORKS OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT is universally recognized as the greatest and most popular story-teller for children in her generation. She has known the way to the hearts of young people, not only in her own class, or even country, but in every condition of life, and in many foreign lands. Plato says, "Beware of those who teach fables to children;" and it is impossible to estimate the influence which the popular writer of fiction has over the audience he wins to listen to his tales. The preacher, the teacher, the didactic writer find their audience in hours of strength, with critical faculties all alive, to question their propositions and refute their arguments. The novelist comes to us in the intervals of recreation and relaxation, and by his seductive powers of imagination and sentiment takes possession of the fancy and the heart before judgment and reason are aroused to defend the citadel. It well becomes us, then, who would iv guard young minds from subtle temptations, to study the character of those works which charm and delight the children.

Of no author can it be more truly said than of Louisa Alcott that her works are a revelation of herself. She rarely sought for the material of her stories in old chronicles, or foreign adventures. Her capital was her own life and experiences and those of others directly about her; and her own well-remembered girlish frolics and fancies were sure to find responsive enjoyment in the minds of other girls.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

FLOWER FABLES

HOSPITAL SKETCHES

LITTLE WOMEN

A STRANGE ISLAND

PERILOUS PLAY

AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL

LITTLE MEN: LIFE AT PLUMFIELD WITH JO'S BOYS

WORK: A STORY OF EXPERIENCE

EIGHT COUSINS

ROSE IN BLOOM

UNDER THE LILACS

JACK AND JILL

JO'S BOYS

A GARLAND FOR GIRLS

DR DORN'S REVENGE

LOST IN A PYRAMID, OR THE MUMMY'S CURSE

PAULINE'S PASSION AND PUNISHMENT

MARJORIE'S THREE GIFTS

THE MYSTERIOUS KEY AND WHAT IT OPENED

THE LOUISA ALCOTT READER

I.

A CHRISTMAS DREAM, AND HOW IT CAME TRUE.

II.

THE CANDY COUNTRY.

III.

NAUGHTY JOCKO.

IV.

THE SKIPPING SHOES.

V.

COCKYLOO.

VI.

ROSY'S JOURNEY.

VII.

HOW THEY RAN AWAY.

THE FAIRY BOX.

IX.

A HOLE IN THE WALL.

X.

THE PIGGY GIRL.

KITTY'S CLASS DAY AND OTHER STORIES

A MODERN CINDERELLA

ON PICKET DUTY AND OTHER TALES

BEHIND A MASK, OR A WOMAN'S POWER

THE ABBOT'S GHOST, OR MAURICE TREHERNE'S TEMPTATION


ABOUT LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Nevertheless, her family suffered severe financial difficulties and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s.