Louisa May Alcott
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer illuminates the world of Little Women and its author. Since its publication in 1868-69, Little Women, perhaps America's most beloved children's classic, has been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. It has been translated into more than fifty languages and inspired six films, four television shows, a Broadway musical, an opera, and a web series. This lavish four-color edition features over 220...
Author
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
One of America's most adored juvenile fiction writers, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) also penned anonymous and pseudonymous sensation stories for popular magazines. Her spellbinding tales of intrigue and suspense, violence and evil, jealousy and revenge, were uncovered by the detective work of Madeleine Stern and others, who scrutinized published and unpublished sources for clues to Alcott's secret literary life. Now Alcott's known thrillers are available...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ironweed Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The Poems of Louisa May Alcott is the first comprehensive volume of her poems, many of which are collected here for the first time. This book will delight & surprise those who know Louisa May Alcott principally through her fiction. All Ironweed American Classics books are printed on acid-free paper.
Author
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family's poverty. Her first literary success was a contemporary close-up account of the American Civil War, brilliantly depicted...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This collection represents the best of Alcott's adult oeuvre, starting with 'A Modern Mephistopheles,' a dark Faustian tale inspired by A Long Fatal Love Chase. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Listeners will discover within this maelstrom of murder, deceit, obsessive desire, treachery, duplicity, and betrayal that love and honor can still...
Author
Series
Publisher
World
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
Description
Better known for her novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. Entertaining, surprising, and overall a joy to read, Jo's Boys is nevertheless shaded by a bittersweet tone, for with it Alcott brought her wonderful series to an end. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New...
98) Jo's story
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy aunt offers to adopt one of the March girls, ten-year-old Jo decides the best thing to do is sacrifice herself.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: Not only is their father overseas with the military and their mother working overtime to make ends meet, but each girl is struggling with her own unique problems. Whether it's school woes, health issues, boy troubles or simply feeling lost, the March sisters all need the same thing: support from each other. By coming together -- and sharing lots of laughs and tears -- these four young women find...
100) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
